PSY 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fundamental Attribution Error, Availability Heuristic, Counterfactual Thinking
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Lecture september 22, 2015 (finished september 24, 2015) Beliefs influence how we perceive and interpret events. The ability to discern patters in the situations using very narrow slices of experience. Overconfidence tendency to be more confident than correct. Remedies prompt feedback, unpack the task (specific for planning fallacy) Representativeness heuristic how closely something represents something else. The availability heuristic thinking something is more likely to happen because of how easy it is to think of a situation. Counterfactual thinking thinking a(cid:271)out situations that didn"t a(cid:272)tually happen. Illusory correlation perception of an association even when none exists (ex. Team always wins when you wear your lucky sweatshirt) Illusion of control believing you have more control than you really do (believing you have better chances of winning lottery when you pick your own numbers) Attributing causality: to the person or the situation. Attribution theory: dispositional vs. situational attributions.
