PSY 2110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Availability Heuristic
22 Mar 2019
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You are bombarded with a complex array of information in our environment on a daily basis. Social condition examines the ways people process information about themselves and others in order to make judgements: article 7: some systematic biases of everyday judgment. People are cognitive misers, where we prefer to think as little as possible in reaching decisions, employing cognitive strategies such as heuristics (mental shortcuts). Availability heuristic: judging the probability of something happening by how easily it comes to mind. Ie. far of ying based on terrifying pictures of accidents. These mental shortcuts create biases in how we interpret the events around us. Motivational causes: some beliefs are comforting and convince themselves that a questionable proposition is true (ie. religious beliefs). Cognitive causes: faulty processes of reasoning and judgement lead people to misevaluate evidence of their everyday experience.
