PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Meghan Markle, Serena Williams, Psychological Science
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Humans can"t rely solely on intuition and common sense. He says to himself, i bet that it"s going to rain this afternoon. Overestimate our performance, our rate of work, our skills, and our degree of self-control. Overconfidence is a problem in eyewitness testimony (you"re just using. People are much more certain than they are accurate a script to fill in what you don"t know about that situation) Why we make these errors: from an evolutionary perspective. Hindsight bias: trying to figure out why it occurred. Perceiving order: helps us make predictions, ex: doing something before watching a match (i. e. growing your beard before watching the stanley cup, or wearing your lucky t-shirt before you go somewhere important) If our intuition gives us the right answer, we believe in it more ( i knew serena williams was going to lose because meghan markle was there, not because i know anything about tennis")