PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Neural Coding, Availability Heuristic, Bounded Rationality
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Complex brains give rise to problem solving abilities that confer an adaptive advantage. Humans are prone to biases that can prevent optimal decision making. Availability heuristic: jonny remembers catching sh on his last 3 outings, leading him to overestimate his skills. Learning provides exible tools for interacting with the environment. Neural encoding makes learning an enduring change in behaviour. Intelligence: the cognitive ability of an individual to learn from experience, reason well, remember important information, and cope with demands of daily life. Functional xedness: a bias limiting views to using objects only in the way it is traditionally used: ability to think outside the box. Louisiana literacy test: must have an fth grade education to be able to vote: racist as minorities mostly homeschooled, reliable but not valid. Bounded rationality: cognate limitations prevent humans from being fully rational: cant take-in/process all information given to us, emotions. Biases: mistakes that in uence judgment: can be negative or positive.
