PSY-3217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Illusory Correlation, Availability Heuristic, Representativeness Heuristic
16 Aug 2016
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Chapter 11 study guide (pages covered: 399-411, 419-429) Inductive reasoning: what it involves, how it differs from deductive reasoning (note that you should know the definitions of both types of reasoning: inductive reasoning: drawing general conclusions from specific evidence process is subject to. Rules are not as clear-cut as for deductive reasoning. Different principles and biases influence inductive reasoning. If you toss a fair coin, what is the probability of: an outcome of heads once; twice in a row? . Availability heuristic: judging frequency of events based on information available in ltm. Likelihood estimates (i. e. , frequency of events) are then based on examples we can recall from memory (e. g. , how many women are doctors; which is more common chevrolet or. The more examples recalled, or the easier they are to recall, the greater the predicted likelihood. Availability heuristic: basing frequency judgment on examples retrieved from ltm. If sample in memory is biased, so is judgment: the range of availability effects.
