PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Dissociative Identity Disorder, Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Gerry Goldberg

Document Summary

Barriers: irrelevant information: functional fixedness, mental set, unnecessary constraints. Field dependence: reply on external frames of reference and tend to accept the physical environment as a given instead of trying to analyze to restructure it. Field independent: rely on internal frames of reference and tend to analyze and try to restructure the physical environment rather than accepting it as it is. Involves evaluating alternatives and making choices among them. Simon"s theory of bounded rationality asserts that people tend to use simple strategies in decision making than focus on only a few facets of available options and often result in irrational decisions that are less optimal. Heuristics: availability heuristic, representativeness tend to ignore the base rates. The conjunction fallacy: when we estimate that the odds of two uncertain events happening together are greater than the odds of either event happening alone. Dual process theory: positing that people depend on two very different modes/systems of thinking when making decisions.