PSYCH 4508 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Subadditivity, Availability Heuristic, Guacamole
12 Oct 2016
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Judgments from memory: we make many real life judgments on information we retrieve from memory, judgments of frequency or probability of events, however, retrieved memories aren"t always perfect replicas of the truth. Psych 4508: everything seems riskier when we"re in a lousy mood (johnson & tversky, Guiana: scenarios that are easy to imagine or stimulate are often judged as more likely. On the basis of this information, thumbnail descriptions of the. 30 engineers and 70 lawyers have been written. You will find on your forms five descriptions, chosen at random from the 100 available descriptions. For each description, please indicate your probability that the person described is an engineer. He shows no interest in political and social issues and spends most of his free time on his many hobbies, which include carpentry, sailing, and mathematical puzzles: dick is a 30-year-old man. A man of high ability and high motivation, he promises to be quite successful in his field.
