PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Endocrine System, Humanistic Psychology, Counterintuitive

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Close-up (improve you retention): 12 13, useful but not on exam. The act of doing calculations magically induces thoughts of red hammer. Note: not necessarily mutually exclusive (one right, one wrong) Red is the most common colour, hammer is the most typical tool. Under any circumstances , most people asked the colour/tool will say red/hammer. Given a chance to think about it, person might deliberately to avoid saying the first colour/tool that comes to mind. Encouraging speedy decisions on calculations prevents over thinking on colour/tool decision. Preceding colour/tool question with norm information (98% of people say same thing) causes people to ask: what would others say? . Remove the numbers or change them around. Red is a primary colour, what we learn first as a child. But that"s only in canada so you can might take the experiment to different cultures or countries (environment) The wording of the instructions and the speed of how the questions and answers were shown.