PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Daniel Kahneman, Confirmation Bias
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Insight: the sudden discovery of the solution to the problem. Three elements of a problem: initial state, goal state, operations. Mental set: a well established pattern of though and perception. Functional fixedness: tendancy to see objects and their functions in fixed, typical ways. Judgement: process by which which you form opinions, reach conclusions and make critical evaluations of events and people. Heuristics: strategies for simplifying a problem. (tversky and kahneman) Framing effect: the tendancy for choices to differ depending how the choices are presented (framed). Fairness bias: the willingness to accept a risk of total loss rather than accepting an unfair offer. Hindsight bias: the tendency to overestimate your ability to have predicted an event once you know the outcome.
