PSY BEH 11B Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Representativeness Heuristic, Psych

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Psychology and Social Behavior
• Course: PSY BEH 11B
• Professor: Joanne Zinger

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Directed thinking the ways people draw conclusions or make decisions. Thought processes are divided into judgment, reasoning, decision making, and problem solving. Heuristics a strategy for making judgments quickly at the price of occasional mistakes. Availability heuristics strategies for judging how frequently something happens (or how common) based on how easily. Judgment the process of extrapolating from evidence to draw conclusions examples of it come to mind: frequency estimates assess(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts of ho(cid:449) ofte(cid:374) (cid:455)ou"(cid:448)e e(cid:374)(cid:272)ou(cid:374)te(cid:396)ed a pa(cid:396)ti(cid:272)ula(cid:396) e(cid:448)e(cid:374)t o(cid:396) o(cid:271)je(cid:272)t, mental dictionary is organized by starting letter. Representativeness heuristic a strategy for judging whether an individual, object, or event belongs in a certain category based on how typical of the category it seems: members of the category are homogeneous. Dual-process theory the proposal that judgment involves two types of thinking: a fast, efficient, but sometimes faulty set of strategies, and a slower, more laborious, but less risky set of strategies.