PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Carbon Offset, Carbon Tax, Confirmation Bias
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Psy100h1 - lecture 14 - health, stress and happiness! Top-down processes play a role in motivation. People who struggle with motivation are missing an energy source blame themselves and think they have something fundamentally wrong with them. Thinking of goal pursuit in different ways impacts different ways of attaining it, its power and its success. Doing well in school vs not failing at school (framing and goal setting) Options feel different despite being practically the same thing. Everyone falls in the heuristic trap of goal pursuit. We"ve talked about top-down processes, their efficiency gains and accuracy costs. Another way in which we deceive ourselves (some of the time) is through the use of heuristics (rules of thumbs, work similarly to schemas), cognitive shortcuts. Excuse me can i butt in line, because i"m in a rush? . Excuse me can i butt in line, because i need to make some copies? . Because : cognitive shortcut, like being on autopilot.
