PSYCH 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Availability Heuristic, Confirmation Bias, Psych
11 Mar 2016
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Made the paricipants unscramble lists of words. When they go, they couldn"t" hand in their paper because someone was talking excessively to experimenter. Independent variable: ime willing to wait for the talkaive person to leave. Perceptual salience: when there is something that stands out in a paricular crowd. If a room full of children has one old guy; old is the schema used. If there is a room of old woman and one old guy; male is the schema used to judge. Might noice things that are important to you. Schemas help us judge and igure out how to react without much efort. When we overgeneralize or misinterpret; we are. Perseverance efect: (belief persistence) we hold on to inaccurate info even ater it has been proved wrong. Ex. ) despite evidence; people sill believe that vaccinaions cause auism. Gave paricipants suicide notes; said half were real and half were fake.
