PSYC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Oneword
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Availability heurisic-esimaing the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind (perhaps because of vividness), we presume such events are common. Overconidence-the tendency to be more conident than correct; to overesimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgments. Belief perseverance-clinging to one"s iniial concepions ater the basis on which they were formed has been discredited (oten fuels social conlict) Intuiion-an efortless, immediate, automaic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning (can oten lead to incorrect or bias answers) Framing-the way an issue is posed; how an issue is framed can signiicantly afect decisions and judgments. Language-our spoken, writen, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning. Phoneme-in language, the smallest disincive sound unit (500 languages & 869 phonemes: word bat has 3 phonemes: b, a, & t . Morpheme-in language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or a part of a word.
