PSYCH 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Babbling, Language Processing In The Brain, Availability Heuristic
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Casinos entice us to gamble by signaling even small wins with bells and lights making them vividly memorable while keeping big losses soundlessly invisible. (c) vivid imagery prioritized over statistics (d) intuition is recognition born of experience. It is implicit knowledge what we"ve learned but can"t fully explain, such as how to ride a bike: overconfidence (a) people who err on the side of overconfidence live more happily. They make tough decisions more easily, and they seem more credible than others (baumeister, 1989; 10 out of 100000 sounds more scary than 0. 000001 % (b) opt in and opt out option. Ii) some animals have ability to use concepts and numbers, display insight, and use tools and transmitting culture. Sheep recognize faces, chimpanzees read intent, elephants self awareness: chimpanzees have shown altruism, cooperation, and group aggression, elephants, which in tests also display their abilities to learn, remember, discriminate smells, empathize, cooperate, teach, and spontaneously use tools.
