PSYC 100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Conjunction Fallacy, Availability Heuristic, Representativeness Heuristic

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

Practical intelligence sternberg: street smart, hard to measure as the assessment needs to be broad and tailored to the individual, based on experience. General intelligence spearman: book smart/academic based, plan things out, assessment is based on school type learning. What effects our intelligence: heritability (genes) (40% childhood, 70% adulthood, environmental factors, brain that work better (ie. more efficient in neural processing, greater synchronisation and neural adaptation to tasks. Decision making: the process of selecting one option among many based on an evaluation of the various available outcomes. Judgement: the evaluation that occurs during decision making. Judgement can occur without decision making, however decision making cannot happen without judgement. Cognitive heuristics: mental shortcuts based on experience (allows us to think fast in simple ways) it can lead to a variety of errors and biases. The letter r: the english language has many more words that contain r as the third letter than words that begin with the letter r.