PHIL 201 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Hindsight Bias, False Dilemma, Semantic Memory
15 Jan 2019
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Section 2: name the bias of reasoning at work for each of the following statements: hindsight bias, confirmation bias, change blindness, false polarization effect. Section 3: short answer questions: semantic memory is propositional memory. It is memory about facts (e. g. trudeau is the. It is memory of your past experiences, and is involved in reliving past events: because getting in the 99th percentile on an exam means you did better than 99% of people who took the exam. However, if 99% of people failed the exam, you can still be in the. 99% percentile and not have passed the exam: this is the psychological effect where it sounds like someone is making a particular sound when you are watching their lips move, but a different sound if you are not. This is usually produced by overlying the same sound over different lip movements.
