PSYCH 2H03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12-13: Orbitofrontal Cortex, Functional Fixedness, Fair Coin
24 May 2017
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Emotion plays a huge role in our ordinary thinking. Showed no physiological responses to tragic, graphic, sexual imagery. His decision making was impaired because this process involves emotional evaluation. Somatic markers (how options make us physically feel excited, tense, etc. ) guide our choices. The activity of thinking involves drawing conclusions from evidence, considering the implications of our beliefs, and making trivial and consequential decisions. Experience plays an obvious role in our learning: you tend to take advice from those you considered experienced in certain areas (e. g. your hair stylist"s recommendation for hair products) Sometimes people don"t learn from experience, and continue to make the same mistakes repeatedly. This strategy works well if the more accessible form of information is well correlated with the desired information. Availability heuristic: the person needs to judge the frequency of a certain type of object of the likelihood of a particular event.
