PSYC 2310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Fallacy, Hindsight Bias, Emor

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2310
• Professor: Saba Safdar

Document Summary

Automatic thinking: a type of decision-making process that occurs at an unconscious or automatic level and is entirely effortless and unintentional: relies on heuristics- rules of thumb or mental shortcuts used to form judgments and make decisions. Controlled thinking: aka effortful thinking, conscious and intentional thinking, more accurate j. Judgements: for example: when choosing a university, didn"t make choice on seeing the brochure, rather evaluated pros and cons before making decision. Social cognition: how we think about social world, how people select, interpret and make judgments about the world. How can shortcuts lead to errors when thinking about the. Past experiences lead to use of availability heuristics. Schemas: mental structures that organize our knowledge about the world and influence how we interpret people & events. Recent experiences are likely to increase availability: example: recently seeing a movie with kidnapping influences judgment on real life situations.