PSY 2174 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Intelligence Quotient, Written Language, Belief Perseverance
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Intuition bridging function arrived at that particular conclusion: blind faith; represents a closed system, biased attention directed to information supporting beliefs, often associated with feeling states, not objective facts. Person has a very strong emotional attachment to their belief. One doesn(cid:495)t require proof or close inspection: embodied in folk wisdom, stereotypes (cid:523)(cid:494)belief perseverance(cid:495)(cid:524, synonymous with (cid:498)gut feeling(cid:499) or (cid:498)hunch(cid:499, self-evident, obvious, doesn(cid:495)t require prof, (cid:498))ntuitive leaps(cid:499); steps not accessible to conscious thought; server a. You can(cid:495)t deconstruct these thoughts because they are not. Things that are not accessible through normal awareness. You know the truth, but you can not trace back how you. Can agree to disagree (not much to help with the discrepancy) Due it out (physical route; no pleasant outcomes) Let facts decide: scientists differ from others in that they check their intuitions, intuition plays a valuable role in science: completely independent to essential.