PSY 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Amos Tversky, Daniel Kahneman, Conjunction Fallacy

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 103
• Professor: Richard Gerrig

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Cognition: cognition: problem solving, judgment, and decision making. Automatic: you do it naturally so you do not have to think (juggle) Controlled process: something you have to control yourself to do (horn in cars in boston) Cognition requires a mixture of automatic and controlled processes: algorithms vs. heuristic processes. Most well-defined problems can be solved with algorithms. You have to buy gifts for about 20 people and you are almost totally broke: heuristic processes: informal rules of thumb or strategies, it"s the holiday season. You have to buy gifts for about 20 people and you"re almost totally broke. Every swan i"ve ever seen has been white. The next swan i see will be white. That"s associative: much of what we might want to call thinking occurs via system 1, out of conscious awareness. That"s mostly fine, because we can automatize some remarkable skills. (this perspective was pioneered by amos tversky and daniel kahneman. )