PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Functional Fixedness, Representativeness Heuristic, Homeostasis
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May pay off with a quick, correct answer, but may lead to no answer or an incorrect one. When making judgements we tend to rely on information that is easy to retrieve: representative heuristic. Make judgements about categorization based on how well an object resembles that category. More representative the object is, more probable: base rates, the frequency of an event occurring in the world, tend to pay more attention to information we are given without considering actual base rates. Combat functional fixedness by systematically thinking about all the possible ways to solve the problem: mental set. Our past experience with problem solving can lead to mental set tendency to use previously successful solution strategies without considering others more appropriate for the problem: restructuring- representing the problem in a novel way. Intelligence: benet-simon intelligence scale, develop a test to screen intellectually delayed children for them to be placed in remedial classes.
