PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Homicide
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Induction: process to go beyond available information drawing inferences about a pattern, based on few examples. Inductive conclusions are never guaranteed to be true but if done properly, conclusion are likely to be true. Descriptive account of human induction telling us how the process ordinarily proceed. Normative account of human induction telling us how things ought to go. Judgment heuristics i. e. process of education connection and back-and-forth b/w teacher and student, capacity to learn depends on the person who has the experience and the person"s memory. We draw conclusions based on experiences gathered over long time. Availability heuristic: relying on availability ease w/ which things come to mind as a substitute for frequency i. e. judging f david is lying or not. Try to remember things about david and liars and see if david fits in category. Liar but might be easier to rely on attribute substitution.
