PSYC 309 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Anagram, Ikea, Scale-Invariant Feature Transform
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A reasoning problem [slide 4: problem you can work through logically, in a sequence (like math), step-by-step, best solved by conscious deliberate effort. Bias on fixed where top/bottom should be. Pig in a pen : isn"t logical solution, moment of insight, ah ha moment, suddenly get it, didn"t think about rotating square. It can lead us to suboptimal weighting of the importance of attributes. It has a low capacity, so we don"t always factor in all the information relevant to making a good decision. Is this a good decision thinking: conscious: made a list pros and cons, equal weighting to unequal factors; or critical to how happy with decision or not, [the office] e. g. Importance of attributes: how she looks = how he feels: e. g. Dijksterhuis (2006): study 1: do two ways of thinking when it comes to decisions have different capacity of how much information they can deal with? o.
