PSYC 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Availability Heuristic, Multiple Choice, Monster Group
3 Jan 2019
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Ceiling effects- situation where you find that you cannot raise people"s scores,they are so high, that they are virtually at the ceiling. *give me two cognitions and examples how to reduce it* Expectancy - alice - attribution is a __ caused - Things that will affect your decisions: not readily observed - certain attitude you have, but you don"t carry it around consciously. When the topic comes up, it"s relevant to these attitudes, instead of treating the attitudes as what you see is what you get, it"s the bias coming up. If someone talks about old age with people in one study and then they dismiss them from the study and they are walking very slow after. Graeme frame - ending - if you change this attitude, you will live forever, if you stop doing this, your children will thank you. Fineberg - if they end with some sort of future catastrophe, it doesn"t work so well.
