PSYCH 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Planning Fallacy, Representativeness Heuristic, Hindsight Bias
20 Apr 2016
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Priming: activating particular associations in memory, perceiving and interpreting events. Constructing memories of ourselves and our worlds: misinformation effect. Incorporating misinformation into one"s memory of the event after witnessing an event and receiving misleading information about it: reconstructing our past attitudes, reconstructing our past behaviors. Not a good way to drive a car! Impulsive, effortless, and without our awareness: schemas, emotional reactions. You aren"t thinking about how you"re supposed to feel. The limits of intuition: hindsight bias, primes rarely have long lasting effects. Overconfidence phenomenon: tendency to be more confident that correct to overestimate the accuracy of one"s beliefs. Confirmation bias: tendency to search for information that confirms one"s preconceptions. Helps explain why our self-images are so stable. Unpack a task break it down into estimated time slots. Heuristic: mental shortcuts: cognitive misers, representative heuristic. Tendency to presume, sometimes despite contrary odds, that someone or something belongs to a particular group if resembling (representing) a typical member: availability heuristic.
