CAS PS 261 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Conjunction Fallacy, Representativeness Heuristic, Illusory Correlation
10 Apr 2016
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Study guide will be on black bard by 7p, 50 multiple choice question office hours next tuesday 3/2 from 12-2 pm no discussion until march 24th. I see someone walking down comm ave wearing a back pack and a north face jacket. I assume they are bu student t: representative heuristic. Mental shortcut and we classify people to the similar things. What explains why most people chose b: conjunction fallacy. Falsely believe that outcome of it more less likely than one event. People tend to think that there is a strong relationship between mental illness and violence when that is not actually the case. Perception of relationship exist when there is no relationship at all. Grandma thinks its going to rain when her joints were hurt. As seen in the video in discussion, jerry berger replicated milgram"s shock study to examine the question of whether people would act the same way today as they did in the.
