PSYCH238 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Daniel Kahneman

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH238
• Professor: Doug Brown

Document Summary

However the two tables are exactly the same, just displayed differently this suggests that humans have flawed perceptions - we are wrong and make mistakes ** Different set of rules for decision making. Reflective uncontrolled controlled effortless effortful associative deductive fast slow unconscious self-aware skilled (practice) rule-following. You can get a different set of answers when you use your reflective set of rules vs. automatic. We hope people use their rational, reflective system when voting. Facial judgment paradigm: two candidates running against each other in an election. People have no idea of who they are. People would be right 50% of the time in judging who won the election based on looking competent. People are actually right about 70% of the time when predicting outcomes on appearing competent. Children are also right 70% of the time. Every different cultures are right 70% of the time. **key idea: judgments about physical competence are right about 70% of the time.