PSY 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Robert Sternberg, Availability Heuristic, Frontal Lobe
17 Sep 2020
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Insight: refers to a sudden realization, a leap forward that leads to a solution. We say aha and feel a sense of satisfaction when an answer seems to pop into our minds. We also may laugh, joke punchlines rely on sudden insight. Ex: study fmri and eeg, when asked a puzzle. With aha moment, extra frontal lobe activity, extra burst of activity in right temporal lobe. Confirmation bias: predisposes us to verify rather than challenge our hypothesis: refers to our tendency to search for information that confirms current theory, disregarding contradictory evidence, ex study: gave 2,4,6 and asked to guess rule. Only only sought confirming evidence, guessing groups that would fit into what they want it to be. Fixation: cannot see something from a new perspective, in a new way: functional fixedness: cannot use something for another use because used to using a tool one way.
