PSYC 2650 Study Guide - Final Guide: Wason Selection Task, Modern Defense, Confirmation Bias
8 Dec 2015
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How a problem or question is phrased/asked has an enormous impact on the answer/solution that. If there is a loss frame, people are more risk seeking (they prefer to gamble) If there is a gain frame, people are more risk averse (they refuse to gamble) Different choices made among the same alternatives, depending on how alternatives are stated. What treatments a doctor will choose depends on whether the treatment is described in terms of odds of. If you frame something in a way that explains how many lives it will save - it suddenly becomes. Framing effects often occur in situations where there is not a clear basis for making a decision - So, people often choose the answer that is the easiest to justify - when you have to explain why you. People do not always reason according to the laws of logic.
