PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Confirmation Bias, Functional Fixedness, Drawing Pin
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Exhaust all possibilities before arriving at a solution. Simple thinking strategies that allow us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently. Less time consuming but more error-prone than algorithms. Make it easier for us to use simple principles to arrive at solutions to problems. Confirmation bias: a tendency to search for information that confirms a personal bias. However, rule was any ascending series of numbers. You have the following materials: a birthday candle, 10 thumbtacks, a box of matches, a cork bulletin board. Your goal is to mount the candle onto the bulletin and light it. The inability to see a problem from a new/different perspective: candle problem. Functional fixedness: an object can serve multiple functions. Each day we make hundreds of judgments. Judging the likelihood of things or objects in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, a particular prototype. Whatever increases the ease of retrieving information increases its perceived availability.
