PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hemispatial Neglect, Stroop Effect, Donald Broadbent

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Processes in learning leads to changes in the coding of the brain. Only organisms w a complex brain are able to make decisions --> self-regulation. Agreeing on an operational definition of intelligence is a difficult thing to do. Intelligence is a hypothetical construct that is difficult to measure --> we can"t directly observe a persons intelligence. Perspectives in psychology change the focus of research questions we pursue and the type of answers we find. Bounded rationality: cognitive limitations prevent humans from being fully rational: most of the decisions we make are automatic, driven more by gut instincts than actual thinking and calculating. Daniel kahneman --> research 2 general way how ppl make decisions and judgments. System 1: fast, intuitive, gut instinct, autopilot, everyday decisions made by system 1. System 2: slower, deep, effortful, complex computations, focuses on problem, only make some decisions using system 2. Rational decision making: bazerman and moore made a framework for rationally making big decisions.

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