PS270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Representativeness Heuristic, Fundamental Attribution Error, Mphasis
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Consistency: the amount of times the actor performs the same behaviour toward an object at alternative instances. Distinctiveness: the amount of times the actor executes different behaviours with different objects. Consensus: the degree in which different actors execute the equivalent behaviour with the same object. Assessing behaviour by how people decide, and whether they make an internal or an external attribution. Misinformation effect: occurs when misleading information is integrated into one"s memory following an event, this can also be done by using specific words. Controlled processing: processes that require your attention, additionally it"s hard to perform more than one controlled process at a time. Automatic processing: processes that don"t require your attention, and its often easy to performed these processes along with other tasks without obstruction. Phenomenon: when have a feeling of overconfidence in the accuracy of our beliefs and memories. Even though the memory may not be completely accurate we perceive it to be.
