PSYB57H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Utility, Confirmation Bias, Temporal Lobe
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Deduction: claims or assertions, then ask what follows form the premises. Determine the rules by proposing own triplets and receiving yes/no responses. Disconfirmatory is more insightful i. e. confirm bias evaluating evidence. Attention can be drawn to certain things to confirm or refute hypothesis. With disconfirming evidence, things get interesting and kickstart thoughts and processes to discount accounts to hypotheses. Many people have proposed that people are logical in their thinking and that errors come from carelessness, misreading etc. (boole and piaget, etc. A commonly used tool for studying this is categorical syllogism i. e. all a are b, all b are c, therefore all a are c. What kinds of errors do people make and why: belief bias i. e. all doctors go to med school. Pre-existing beliefs (in temporal lobe), follow of garden-path mechanism: matching strategy i. e all a are b. All d are b/ therefore, all a are d.
