PSY270H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Wason Selection Task, Base Rate, Confirmation Bias
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Related to availability heuristic: example of illusory correlation: one day, kelly catches many fish in one spot at. Kelly now believes that there must be more fish at that spot than anywhere else at the lake. Robert, who wears glasses, speaks quietly, and reads a lot. Emotions affect decision making: incidental emotions: emotions that are not caused by having to make a decision. Can be related to a person"s general disposition, or an earlier event: expected emotions: emotions that people predict they will feel for a particular outcome. Truth and validity pertain to both types of syllogisms : truth, refers to the content of the premises. If the conclusion follows logically from the premises and the premises are true, then the conclusion will be true as well. Have two premises and a conclusion: but, premise 1 has the form: if p then q , this type of syllogism common in everyday life, four major types of conditional syllogisms.
