PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Rorschach Test, Availability Heuristic, Representativeness Heuristic
11 Apr 2013
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Chapter 12 - judgment: drawing conclusions from evidence. Induction - process in which you try to go beyond the available information- drawing inferences about a pattern, based on few examples, or what you ve seen so far. If induction is done properly, the situation is likely to occur. Therefore we compare a descriptive account of human induction (telling us how the process usually proceeds), with a normative account (how things ought to proceed). With this we ll figure out if our day- to-day judgments are sensible and justified, or just stupid. Any factor that influences memory will influence the pattern of our conclusions and the quality of our judgments. Drawing conclusions from past observations and memories is also referred to as learning. Attribute substitution: you use this strategy when you re trying to evaluate some point but don t have easy access to the target information.
