PSYC-104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jane Goodall, Representativeness Heuristic, Hindsight Bias
19 Apr 2016
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Needs facilitated communicator by guiding child"s hands on keyboard. Ideomotor effect: ideas are unknowingly influencing movement: as effective as ouija board, didn"t work. Surgical procedure severing fibres connecting frontal lobes to thalamus. Moniz (nobel prize 1949): founder, thought it was effective treatment. Side effects: apathy, loss of bladder control, etc. Heuristics: mental shortcuts to streamline thinking, stereotypes, oversimplifying: cognitive misers: we conserve our mental energy by using heuristics. Judging probability of event using superficial similarity to a prototype. Base rate fallacy- how common a characteristic is: fallacy is sharks are deadlier but in reality horses kill more people. 2)availability heuristic: off the top of my head . Likelihood of an occurrence based on the ease in which it comes to mind. Cognitive biases: systematic errors in thinking, can be: Hindsight bias: overestimating how well we successfully forecast unknown outcomes, in retrospect it was easy to predict. Overconfidence: tendency to overestimate ability to make predict equations.
