PSYB04H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jenny Mccarthy, Confirmation Bias, Availability Heuristic
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You: the owner"s manual written by dr. oz. Tendency to rely predominantly on evidence that easily comes to mind/readily available rather than using all possible evidence in evaluating a conclusion. I. e. traveling by airplane is more dangerous than traveling by car: bc you hear/see airplane crashes/disappearances more often on the news vs. motor vehicle accidents (which are much more common, confirmation bias. Tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one"s existing beliefs/thoughts. I. e. pre-existing belief mariah carey is a bad person/diva + new year"s lip-syncing scandal = confirmation mariah carrey is a diva: present/present bias. In the future: you"ll continue to spend money and make life decisions based on it, you may be involved in doing it, your job may require that you understand it. If there"s no way to disprove a hypothesis, there"s also no way to prove it: examples of falsifiable claims.
