PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Conjunction Fallacy, Representativeness Heuristic, Availability Heuristic

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Gerry Goldberg

Document Summary

Chapter 8: thinking (starting on pg 341, omit 327-341: the cognitive revolution. I think therefore i am - descartes. Cognitive perspectives on subjective wellbeing: emphasized role of beliefs & thoughts on emotions. You must become the master of your own thinking to realize freedom & joy. Turn your thoughts away form lack, want & limitation & let them dwell on the good. Reasoning (human intellect, renaissance scholars believe its the most reliable source of knowledge) Study reasoning, judgments, decision making & problem solving: reasoning, deductive. Agree w things we believe in: inductive. Problem solver goes from the particular to the general. Base a hypothesis on limited evidence & test it against other evidence. Ex. problems of inducing structure (p. 344) 1 3 4 7 _: problem solving. Specify sub problems & sub goals to move from initial state to goal: problems of inducing structure. Require ppl to discover relationships among numbers, words, symbols or ideas: problems of arrangement.