PSYC 308 Chapter Notes - Chapter -: Affect Heuristic, Representativeness Heuristic, Learned Helplessness
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Heuristics : mental short cuts that help you make decision and guide your behavior in certain ways. Availability heuristic : judging based on the ease with which something relevant comes to mind. (problem: too much eight given to vivid example) Representativeness heuristic: classifying something according to how similar it is to a typical case (problem: base rate fallacy- failure to use base rate information to overcome salient information) Affect heuristic: making judgments based on reliance on one"s affect (problem: lack of consideration for objective information ) Anchor and adjustment heuristic :overreliance on initial numerical information as reference point ,have no idea how many you should get. Overconfidence barrier: we tend to be more confidence for our skills that what we have. Optimistic bias: good things always happen you, bad things to other, you will never need to worry about bad things. *needed(fewer physical ailments, more effective coping strategies for stress, generally better health outcomes)
