PSCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Mental Chronometry, Decision-Making, Confirmation Bias
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Definition: receives information, represents it, then manipulate it, and acts upon it. The more complex the decision, the slower you are. Expectancy: you respond faster when you expect something to happen. Sometimes your response times can be sped up when what you should do is obvious. Systematic methods that always reach a correct solution to a problem, if a solution exists. Definition: logical arguments containing two or more premises and a conclusion. There are many times, however, when your ability to reason is error prone. Definition: a tendency for people to seek information that is consistent with your pre-existing conclusions. Definition: people use information to make an initial judgment and then don"t sway very far from that initial judgment. Definition: judging whether something belongs to a group or class because it is similar to other thinks in that group or class.
