PSYCH253 Lecture Notes - Leg Break, Conjunction Fallacy, Roast Beef
16 Apr 2013
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Expends effort, caution to reach correct conclusion. Seeks out evidence that could falsify a hypothesis. Attentive to evidence that violates own hypothesis. Does not act to create the very phenomenon they are studying. Rushes to judgment by relying on heuristics. Does not seek out / ignores falsifying information. Act in ways that brings out/create the information they believe exists. Is biased to see patterns matching own expectations. Automatic systems that are very natural and quick and reliable. Easy, intuitive judgments that occur in our minds without deliberation: liking, disliking, similarity, perceptual/cognitive fluency. Other judgments are not automated and demand more extensive attention and resource-dependent deliberation: probability; scope/importance. Get into trouble when we substitute hard thing with easy thing: attribute substitution when judgments tax information processing. Capacities, people often substitute an answer to a related judgment that is easier and more intuitive.
