PNB 3RM3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cherry Picking, Availability Heuristic, Extraversion And Introversion
26 Sep 2018
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Intuition: availability heuristic, death by fire/falling, people assume fire is more dangerous/falling more common and you do, tenacity not die, believing in something because we long believed it, ex. Believing authorities vs believing science: authority, someone we perceive as correct, o(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e (cid:449)ho is (cid:862)trust(cid:449)orth(cid:455)". Bad idea to rely on own experience: anecdotal evidence denies negatives, bad experiences are remembered more saliently, lack of comparison groups and compounds. Theory data cycle: theory hypothesis prediction data, theory hypothesis data collection results theory. Definitions: theory: system of logical ideas; general principles about an explanation, organize information that already exists, provide framework, ex. Contact comfort is critical to attachment: hypothesis: specific statements that allow us to test theories; specific outcomes you expect given the theory is correct. Contact comfort alone results in better attachment to mom than does food alone: prediction: specific outcomes for hypotheses.
