PSYCH 85 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Representativeness Heuristic, Mental Rotation, Linguistic Relativity
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System 1: automatic; requires little effort; intuition or gut feeling . System 2: controlled; monitors/evaluates output of system 1. Heuristic judgment: an informal rule-of-thumb method of problem solving that does not guarantee a solution but is faster and easier to use than a systematic search: types of heuristic judgments. Availability heuristic: a mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a person"s mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method, or decision. Example: q: what proportion of long-distance relationships end within a year? answer by answering the question: do instances of failed long-distance relationships come to mind? . Representative heuristic: determining the likelihood of an event by comparing it to an existing prototype in our mind. Example: q: how likely is it that this candidate could be tenured in our department? answer by answering question: how impressive was the talk? : errors. We can unwillingly substitute the simpler assessment how happy are you? .
