PSYC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Availability Heuristic, Belief Perseverance, Confirmation Bias

• School: Binghamton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 111
• Professor: Lanora Duell

Document Summary

Cognition, mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, and communicating, we organize events, objects, people, and so form into mental groupings: concepts. Intuition: effortless, immediate, automatic thinking our memories: overconfidence: tendency to overestimate accuracy of our knowledge and judgments, can have adaptive value, belief perseverance: clinging to our ideas in face of contrary evidence. Framing: suggests that our judgments and decisions may not be well reasoned. Fear: often fear the wrong things, we fear things that from our ancestral past have influenced the way we have evolved to fear. Intuition is huge: critical thinkers are often guided by intuition, creativity, creativity is the ability to produce new and valuable ideas. Supported by: aptitude or the ability to learn, working memory. Intelligence: thinking creatively, divergent thinking, expands the number of possible problem solutions, convergent thinking, narrows the available problem solutions to determine the single best solution, more experienced we are in something, the more creative we will be.