PSYC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Robert Sternberg, Belief Perseverance, Divergent Thinking

• School: Binghamton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 111
• Professor: dr.duell

Document Summary

Psyc 111 - lecture 15 - thinking and language/intelligence. Belief perseverance - clinging to our ideas in face of contrary evidence framing - suggest that our judgments and decisions may not be well reasoned fear. We fear what our ancestral history has prepared us to fear. We fear what we cannot control then it"s within our control. A big reason why people are afraid of flying, would rather drive because. More fear about what happens instantly and quickly (like zika or ebola) rather than a gradual, slow death (obesity, smoking) We fear what is most readily available in memory in the three months after 9/11, more people drove rather than getting on a plane - led to more deaths due to driving than ever. Intuition is analysis frozen into habit implicit knowledge intuition is usually adaptive, enabling quick reactions learned associations such as gut feelings intuition is huge. Critical thinkers are often guided by intuition.