PSYCH 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Barnum Effect, Representativeness Heuristic
7 Mar 2018
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Influences the information people notice, think about or remember: controlled thinking, effortful & deliberate, thinking about self & environment, carefully selecting the right course of action. "mental shortcuts: availability heuristic, mental shortcuts people use to make judgements quickly & efficiently, news makes people believe they may be at risk of being in a plane crash; shark attacks. First number: 700,000 second number: 800,000: mentally undoing the past, counterfactual reasoning: mentally changing some aspect of the past in imagining what could have been. " if i never did this, this would"ve never happened: people who have suffered the loss of a spouse or child. Silver medalist "could"ve been a gold medalist: barnum effect: broad things like horoscopes; seem accurate but they are really just general, emotional consequences of counterfactual reasoning, positive, motivation to improve in the future, negative, associated with depression.
