PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hindsight Bias, Confirmation Bias, Heritability
11 Apr 2016
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--controversial: some argue too broad a concepion of intelligence . One way to study----comparisons of twins with non-twines. Botom-line: clearly geneics play a role, but clearly so does the environment. Cogniive economy is a necessary aspect of our cogniive funcioning. Thinking: as ant mental acivity or processing of informaion. Cogniive economy allows us to simplify what we need to atend to and keep the informaion we need to make decisions to a manageable minimum. Ambady and rosenthal referred to our ability to extract useful informaion from small bits of behavior as thin slicing. Heurisics and cogniive biases are oten useful, but can lead us to make costly mistakes in reasoning if we apply them uncriically. The representaiveness heurisic is a quick way of esimaing the likelihood of a paricular event based on past experience, but can lead to overgeneralizaions. Due to a failure to take base rates into account.
