PSYC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Amos Tversky, Daniel Kahneman, Peter Cathcart Wason
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Cognition focus on the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, and. Forming concepts simplify our thinking: mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people. Prototype: a mental image or best example of a category, when our experiences don"t match up with our prototype, our category boundaries may blur. Trial and error: you give it a try and maybe it works maybe it doesn"t, takes a long time. Algorithms (logical rules: step by step procedures that guarantee a solution, however, it takes time and effort. Heuristics (strategy: simpler thinking strategies that allows you to make judgement and solve problems efficiently. In which, it gives us a happy sense of satisfaction. Confirmation bias: our tendency to seek evidence for our ideas more eagerly than we seek evidence against them, peter wason demonstrated in study. Fixation: an inability to come to a fresh perspective. Making good and bad decisions and judgments. Intuition is huge unconscious automatic influences are constantly affecting our judgments.
