PSYC 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Lewis Terman, Functional Fixedness, English Army
22 Mar 2017
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What influences our decisions: emotions, personal bias, consequences, laziness, irrational biases. Confirmation bias tendency to seek out info that confirms what you currently think and know: paying attention to info, example liberals watch cnn, republicans watch fox. Framing effects give a different answer to the same proble(cid:373) depe(cid:374)di(cid:374)g o(cid:374) how it"s fra(cid:373)ed: example kahneman and tversky, 1984, loss vs. gain shifts particular problem and switches the decision we make. Multiple hypotheses: it is hard to focus on multiple theories: the most available theories are not always the most correct. What is that scratching at my window: tree branch, cat, wind, killer escaped from mental institute, we focus on one or 2, and that influences our decision. Mental sets: stick with an old strategy even though a new strategy might work better. Functional fixedness tendency to use familiar objects in familiar ways rather than creative ways.
