PSYCH253 Chapter Notes -Conjunction Fallacy, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Belief Perseverance
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Ideal scientific: expends effort, caution to reach correct conclusions, seeks out evidence that could falsify a hypothesis, attends to evidence that violates own hypothesis, does not act to alter the observed phenomenon. Intuitive thinking: rushes to judgement, does not seek out/ ignores falsifying information. Easy intuitive judgements involve computations our minds perform naturally and automatically without deliberation. Attribute substitution- when judgements tax information processing capacities, people often substitute an answer for a feeling. Feeling heuristic: our reliance on the feelings that we experience to make a decision, problems. Involves base rate neglect, 2 things are more likely than 1. Availability heuristic: tendency to base a judgement based on how easily an idea comes to mind, problems. Statistical, valid information is often not vivid. An organized set of knowledge about a stimulus. Fills in the blanks in our knowledge. Accelerating process: using schemas allows us to process information faster.