[PSY 1305] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (27 pages long!)

• School: Baylor University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1305
• Professor: Danielle Young

Document Summary

A way to finding a solution to a problem. Heuristic: shortcut thinking strategy (possibly results in error) Confirmation bias: predisposes us to verify rather than challenge our hypothesis. Fixation: such as mental set, is the inability to see a fresh perspective in order to solve a problem. : can distort judgment by estimating event likelihood based on. : moment of realization that leads to a solution; the aha! *if you are primed to use a certain problem solving set, it is harder to change the mental set to use a new perspective* Intuition: effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning; analysis that is frozen into habit ; implicit knowledge. Availability heuristic memory availability; tendency to remember things that are emotionally or vivid driven. Works 95% of the time vs. fails 5% of the time. : sways decisions and judgments by influencing the way an issue is posed. : can impact decisions when confidence outweighs correctness.