PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Truck Driver, Fallacy, Diabetes Mellitus Type 2

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

Document Summary

Processes by which we form opinions, reach conclusions, make evaluations of people and events. We make judgements everyday, every other second we are judging something. Assuming yourself to know or be something for sure. Heuristic - cognitive shortcut - a quick snap decision that is going to be based on, in this case, how often a particular instance or example comes to mind. Basing a probability on the ease with which an example comes to mind. Basing a probability on the similarity with a prototype. You hear about a person who is short, slim, and likes to read poetry. Bill is 34 years old, intelligent, unimaginative, compulsive, and somewhat boring. Bill plays jazz as a hobby or. Bill is an accountant who plays jazz as a hobby. You meet a man who is an articulate, ambitious, power-hungry wheeler-dealer. Perceived likelihood of a certain outcome is influenced by the distribution of alternative outcomes.