Please watch the 8-minute video “Beware online “filter bubbles” by Eli Pariser

 

please watch the video and draw connections to

 

-Confirmation Bias <Tendency to search for and use information that supports rather than refutes one’s ideas>

 

-Availability Heuristics < prediction about the probability of an event, based on the ease of recalling or imagining similar events>

 

-Representative Heuristics < tendency to make judgments about group membership, based on physical appearance or ones stereotype of a group rather than the availability base rate information> 

Suppose a researcher gave people the following problem: In a group of 100 people, 70 are pilots and 30 are bookkeepers. Of that group, one man is meek, timid, and enjoys helping people. Is he more likely to be a pilot or a bookkeeper? Most subjects would answer A) bookkeeper, demonstrating a bias toward representativeness B) bookkeeper, demonstrating a prior probability bias C) pilot, demonstrating use of the base-rate information given D) pilot, demonstrating the availability bias E) bookkeeper, demonstrating functional fixedness

8. Suppose a researcher gave people the following problem: In a group of 100 people, 70 are pilots and 30 are bookkeepers. Of that group, one man is meek, timid, and enjoys helping people. Is he more likely to be a pilot or a bookkeeper? Most subjects would answer A) bookkeeper, demonstrating a bias toward representativeness B) bookkeeper, demonstrating a prior probability bias C) pilot, demonstrating use of the base-rate information given D) pilot, demonstrating the availability bias E) bookkeeper, demonstrating functional fixedness

5. In the Tower of Hanoi problem you are to move the rings one at a time to reach the desired goal. When solving this problem you are using A) subgoal analysis B) availability heuristic C) a mental set D) inductive reasoning