PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Traumatic Brain Injury, Frontal Lobe, Representativeness Heuristic
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Algorithm: systematic way of taking information and creating a decision/outcome. Framing effects: the way things are framed makes a huge difference. Sunk-cost fallacy: already have a commitment but don"t want to throw it away. Using the past in such away that the future is not productive. Closer we are to a violent interaction the less likely we are to do something. Moral problems, two options that both suck, in either option people will die. One may be not as bad as the other. Cool cognition: thinks about the economics of the problem. Hot cognition: emotional networks that contribute to decision making. Someone with damage to the frontal lobe, they solely focus on the best logical outcome. Logically make the best decision for the best outcome. Same region of the brain that can be affected with psychopaths. Neurological factor of morality when there is a tumor on the frontal lobe. Most affected part of the brain after traumatic brain injury.
