Sociology 1020 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: The Sociological Imagination, Availability Heuristic, Confirmation Bias
10 Apr 2020
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Awareness of the relationship between personal experience and wider society. Idea that society is responsible for many of our problems. 1 unemployed person = personal, 1000 unemployed people = societal. Do you give to charity to be a good person or do you give to charity to. Logical fallacies, biases, and heuristics (20 cognitive biases article, ch. Over-reliant on the first piece of info they hear. Overestimate the importance of information available to them. Ex. saying smoking is not unhealthy because you know someone that lived to be. One person adopting a belief increases based on the number of people with that belief. Failing to recognize your own cognitive biases. You choose something you tend to feel positive about even if the choice has flaws. Ex. in gambling saying red is more likely to turn up after seeing a string of reds. Tend to listen to information that confirms our preconceptions. People favor prior evidence over new evidence.
