PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Brainstorming, Thesis Statement, Drawing Pin
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Chapter 8: thinking and reasoning: decision making and problem solving. Use a variety of heurisics and top-down processing. The availability heurisic: judging the likelihood of an event based on how easy it is to generate an example of it. The rereseniveness heurisic: esimaing the probability of an event based on how similar it is to the typical prototype. The tendency to ignore base rates: base rates: frequencies at which things occur. The conjuncion fallacy: esimaing the odds of two uncertain events happening together > the odds of either event happening alone. Conirmaion bias: seeking out evidence that its with, rather than, contradicts what we believe. Filling in the gaps using our experience and background knowledge. Examples: percepion is not sensaion, chunking, concepts and schemas, the stroop efect and automaicity of reading. Experiencing diiculty naming words like blue green yellow. The process of selecing among a set of possible alternaives.
