Psychology 15 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Cognitive Load, September 11 Attacks, Daniel Kahneman

• School: Harvard University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 15
• Professor: Joshua Greene

Document Summary

Salience and accessibility: confirmation bias, better safe then sorry o. In 2003, a majority of americans believed that saddam hussein was personally involved in the attacks. 2008 world public opinion poll: a majority of people in jordan, egypt, and the palestinian. When people are busy, they are more likely to make a specific kind of error if something is presented to you as false, it is somewhat unlikely you will correct it when under cognitive load. Salience and accessibility: what sticks? (heath, bell, & sternberg) o. Internet pass along to others measured: disgust themes: Semantic spreading: one thought leads to another: a cognitive neuroscience view of paranormal thought (brugger, esp belief and semantic activiation. Fork, then spoon: activation spreads to related concepts. Those who had more indirect semantic priming effects were more likely to believe in the paranormal: accessible explanations: the case of flying saucers o.