PSYC 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Hooded Crow, Availability Heuristic, Representativeness Heuristic

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 221
• Professor: Richard Wright

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Judgement ; decisions the process of making choices between alternatives ; reasoning the process of drawing conclusions because it involves coming to a conclusion based on evidence. Decisions are based on judgments we make, and applying these judgments can involve various reasoning processes. We are constantly making judgments about things in our environment, including people, events, and behaviors. One of the primary mechanisms involved in making judgments is inductive reasoning , which is reasoning based on observations, or reaching conclusions from evidence. The conclusions we reach are probably , but not definitely , true. A number of factors can contribute to the strength of an inductive argument. Clearly, the crows example suffers from a lack of representativeness because it does not consider crows from other parts of the country or the world. The argument about the crows is made stronger by adding the.