PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Brain Gym International, Lumosity, Cognitive Dissonance
28 Nov 2016
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The rules of psych (from the 1st day: lumosity, (cid:498)some things you know about psych are wrong(cid:499) Novel stimuli radish example: brain gym movement based learning, e. g. action and belief don"t match. E. g. bad movie ticket: an investment : e. g. concord plane (cid:498)too big to fail(cid:499) it would never make money but. Social media makes it easy to spread lies. Conative dissonance is a counterintuitive finding with profound implications. Sunk cost trap: unrecoverable investments of resources leading to further. How to promote honesty for a public good: e. g. faculty have to pay money for communal coffee. Put up posters of flowers and other days a picture of eyes. Seeing the symbol of eyes makes you act differently. When there was eyes a lot was paid, when there was flowers not a lot was paid: our perception of the world is guided by prior experience, bias, and heuristics.
