PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 27-31: Belief Perseverance, Confirmation Bias, Predictive Validity

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

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Week 8 module 27, 28, 29, 30, 31. Matching new items to a prototypical bird, such as a robin) e. g. robin seen more as a bird, and people: algorithm a methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem. Contrasts with the usually speedier but also more error: heuristics a simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and. Intuition can be perilous, especially when we overfeel and underthink, as we do when judging risks development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language) with and understand others. In a given language, semantics is the set of rules for deriving meaning from sounds, and syntax is the set of rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences. Phonemes in a language, the smallest distinctive sound unit. Morphemes in a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a.