PSYC 336 Lecture 12: 12.5 - Judgment and Reasoning V
8 Dec 2020
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Errors occur even when people are strongly motivated to be careful. Sometimes human judgment rises above the heuristics we"ve described so far. Ways of thinking: type 1 and type 2. Dual-process model any model of thinking that claims that people have two distinct means of making judgments. Type 1 fast, easy sort of thinking, efficient, prone to error. Type 2 slower, more effortful thinking, more accurate. Hypothesis people choose when to rely on each system. They shift to the more accurate type 2 when making judgments that really matter. But, we"ve seen that people rely on type 1 heuristics even when incentives are offered and it"s an important professional judgment. Difficult to argue that using type 2 is a matter or deliberate choice. Evidence type 2 comes into play only if it"s triggered by certain cues and only if the circumstances are right.
