PSYC 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Availability Heuristic, Representativeness Heuristic, Confirmation Bias

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 221
• Professor: Richard Smith

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Inductive reasoning- syllogisms: conclusions follow from evidence, not from logically constructed, conclusions are suggested with varying degrees of certainty, strength of inductive argument depends on the. Illusory correlations and stereotypes: can lead to incorrect conclusions about relationships between, related to the availability heuristic things. Draw attention to specific relationships and therefore make. Representativeness heuristic them more available : people often make judgements based on how much one event, errors have been demonstrated by asking subjects to judge a resembles another event person"s occupation based on descriptive info. Representativeness heuristic leads people to ignore base: in other situations, judgement errors occur when people ignore the conjunction rule and the law of large numbers rate info. Myside bias: tendency for people to generate and evaluate evidence and test their hypotheses in a way that is biased toward their own opinions and attitudes. Confirmation bias: tendency to selectively look for info that conforms to a, wason"s number sequence task.