PSY-0013 Lecture Notes - Cognitive Miser, Confirmation Bias, Daniel Kahneman

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Social cognition how we represent other people. Scientist wants to find out the right answer. Lawyer wants to find information that leads to saying, i was right all along . Miser is thrifty with their cognitive resources; wants to get to an answer quickly; may generate errors along the way. Confirmation bias seek, interpret, and create information that confirms our existing beliefs. Good enough answers are fine for many tasks. Organized packets of information that are not stored in memory. Mental representations of objects or categories of objects. Substantial information about a concept, its attributes, and its relationship to other concepts. The controlled system is engaged when something about the even violates our schema (ex. ugly puppy) Automatic systems are not smart enough to perform complex operations/reasoning/decision- making. Are people really rational thinkers? (kahneman recently won nobel prize for discovering and labeling heuristics) Heuristics mental shortcuts we use to make mental judgments.

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