PSYCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Freddie Mercury, Representativeness Heuristic, Availability Heuristic

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Psychology & Brain Sciences
• Course: PSYCH 100
• Professor: John Bickford

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Syllogistic reasoning is the process of drawing conclusions from a set of premises: all humans are vertebrate animals, freddy mercury is human, therefore freddy mercury is a vertebrate animal. Logical fallacies: all humans are vertebrate animals, my dog is a vertebrate animal, therefore my dog is human. Algorithms are a set of rules that inevitably produces a solution: math problems, computer programming. Representative heuristic https://www. slideshare. net/ozkanozer16752754/anchoringheuristic-decision-making: making judgements based on similarity to a known concept, hoof beats usually indicate horses. If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck ,it most probably a duck. Ex- far more likely to die in a car trip to airport than die in the plane. A sudden awareness of relationships that occurs without stepwise deduction. https://www. slideshare. net/ashishdebsikdar/insight-24693398. Mental set :: continuing to use established solutions even after they may no longer be correct or optimal.