PSYCH 240 Lecture 19: Psych 240 Lecture 19 Notes - Reasoning, Judgement, Decision Making Part 2
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!1 (1) clinical psychologists and physicians show growing overcon dence. Subjects should have looked for discon rming evidence by creating strings of numbers that didn"t t their hypothesis. Instead, most subjects just created several sequences that all agreed with their hypothesis and never gured out the actual rule. Monday, april 4, 2016: lord and coworkers (1979) (1) had those in favor of capital punishment and those against it read same articles. Some articles presented evidence in favor of capital punishment, some articles presented evidence against it. (a) those in favor found the articles that were in favor to be most convincing. Heuristics often lead us astray when compared to normative approach, biases that people actually use. Identify the most important attribute of a solution/problem: pick solution that has the highest value on that dimension and ignore all other pieces of information, buying a car example (price, then gas mileage, then reliability, recognition and ffh.
