PSYCH 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Cognitive Miser, Psych, Illusory Correlation
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Mind is actively engaged, you are cognitively active. First learning to drive (gas vs. break, mirrors) High motivation individual difference: need for cognition. Drive car and talk on cell phone, sing with radio. Put into automatic when: and don"t think about it. We don"t think about brushing our teeth, we rely on muscle memory. Can i cut in front of you because . study; if people heard the word because they just let the person cut in front of them, even if the person said. We tend to base decisions on small amounts of data, and as a result, we tend to make sweeping generalizations based on small examples. When we learn something about someone, we use that information to make more generalizations about that person, or a group of people. Under-use of statistical information; either you don"t pay attention to any of the base-rate information, or you pay attention to the wrong base-rate information (under automatic processing)
