PSYCH 1F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Bounded Rationality, Neural Coding, Cognitive Dissonance
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Psychology intro: some of the things you know to be true about psychology are wrong. Cognitive dissonance is a counterintuitive nding with profound implications. Qualities women want in a long term mate. Qualities men want in a long term mate: our perception of the world is guided by prior experience, biases and heuristics. Language can prior experience, biases, and heuristics in uence problem solving? a bat and a ball together cost . 10. . 05 and $. 5: we only have access to a limited subset of reality. Psychology- problem solving and intelligence availability heuristic- make judgements based upon your memory neural encoding makes learning an enduring change in behaviour. We have around 100 million neutrons, functional xedness: a bias limiting views to using an object only in the way it is traditionally used. Intelligence: the cognitive ability of an individual to learn from experience, reason well, remember important information, and cope with the demands of daily living.
