PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Representativeness Heuristic, Conjunction Fallacy, Functional Fixedness

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

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I think therefore i am descartes cognitive perspective for the subject of well being. Authority: e. g. we know who sir john a. macdonald is because of textbooks, the authors are authority. Reason considered by renaissance scholars to be the most reliable source of knowledge. Observation: basis for empirical knowledge, i believe it because i can see it . Cognitive psychologist: studying reasoning, judgements, decision making and problem solving. Reasoning: deductive: drawing a conclusion that follows logically from two or more statements or premises. If one of the statements is false, then the conclusion must be false. E. g. premise 1: all women have cognition. Invalid conclusions: conclusions must follow logically from 2 or more premises to be valid. E. g. premise 1: some women are intelligent beings. Belief bias effect: we tend to judge as true those conclusions with which we agree and as untrue with what we disagree. We seek information that supports our beliefs.