Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Media Bias, Cognitive Psychology, Heuristics In Judgment And Decision-Making

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: Marcie Penner- Wilger

Document Summary

System 1 (automatic system): fast, requires little to no effort, no sense of voluntary control. Detecting the distance of objects compared to others, orienting to sound, making a disgusting face, detecting hostility in someone"s voice, driving your care on an empty road, understanding simple sentences. Deals with computational complexity: generally works but sometimes relates to biases. System 2 (controlled/ effortful system): slow, requires attention, subjective experience of agency; system we identify our thinking with. Bracing for the started gun in a race, focusing on a particular voice in a noisy room, looking for a women with white hair, maintain a faster than normal walking speed. Attribute substitution: a phenomenon where you are asked hard questions, you unconsciously will substitute an easier system one question. How much would you contribute to save an endangered species (target question: system 2) How much emotion do i feel when i think of dying dolphins (heuristic question: system 1)