PSYC 107 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Belief Perseverance, Availability Heuristic, Representativeness Heuristic
11 Dec 2018
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Oscar describes his political beliefs as "strongly liberal," and he is not interested in exploring opposing viewpoints. Oscar will need to guard against confirmation bias (searching for support for his own views and ignoring contradictory evidence) as he seeks out opposing viewpoints. Even if oscar encounters new information that disproves his beliefs, belief perseverance may lead him to cling to these views anyway. It will take more compelling evidence to change his political beliefs than it took to create them. concept a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people. A mental grouping of similar things is called a ____. concept grammar in a language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others. Terrorist attacks in paris and san bernardino made americans, in the words of one senator, "really scared and worried" - and more fearful of being victimized by terrorism than of other greater threats.
