PSYC 334 Study Guide - Final Guide: Victim Blaming, Fallacy

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Psychophysics studies the relationship between physical and psychological experiences a. Not good correspondence between two, especially in small differences. Which cat is more disgusting? ( it is base on your schema of the object) When we make decision, we need information, so we need to guess. Representative is use for to guess how likely it is that something is a certain something based on how similar the event is to the something, and how similar the event is to the process that produced it. Conjunction fallacy: when you guess that the combination characteristics are more likely to be true than one characteristic, it is a problem in representatives heuristic. Event being rated as a rep outcome of a certain process based on how similar the event is to the something and how similar to event is to the process that produced it. Availability heuristics: is use to guess the frequency of something based on how easily it comes to mind.