PSY-200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Representativeness Heuristic, Convergent Thinking, Fallacy

• School: University of Tampa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY-200
• Professor: Wu, Steven Fei

Document Summary

The science of how people think, learn, remember and perceive. Mental processes involved in acquiring, processing, and storing knowledge. Reasoning: process of drawing inferences or conclusions from principles and evidence. Ability rst to think and then to re ect on ones own thinking ; awareness of ones own thinking process. Those able to do this can question their own thinking and dismiss a line of thinking as wrong when it is not supported by evidence. Decision making involves evaluation alternatives and making choices among them. We often make decisions based on less than adequate information resulting in inadequate and poor decisions because: We often do not know why we do what we do. We are more often swayed by anecdotes than by statistical facts. Representative heuristic: estimating the probability of one event on how typical it is of another event.