PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Conjunction Fallacy, Representativeness Heuristic, Loss Aversion
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As a student, she was concerned with issues of discrimination and social justice, and also participated in antinuclear demonstrations. With representative heuristics we"re ignoring base rates (the frequency of an event occurring). Conjunction fallacy: find description in slides. We were asked what percentage of african nations belong to the un. Is it greater or less than. Another group was given the number 10%. Then we were asked to think of the percentage. We use that number, depending on which one it was, as an anchor then we adjust in some way. This didn"t happen in class though. So you realize that it was. 1857 when confederacy was born, and then you guess macdonald"s age, and then you subtract. You use confederacy as a starting place. Anchors can also be introduced by other people (not just internally generated). For example, imagine canada is preparing for the outbreak of a disease that is projected to kill about 600 people.
