COG250Y1 : Term 2 Study Guide on RATIONALITY - terms, theories, important historical figures

161 views4 pages
1 Feb 2011
School
Course
Professor

Document Summary

Ter ms & t heor ies: rationality: probability. Rationality is a qualitative judgement of behaviour very difficult to define. quality of thought in relation to norms of formal logic & Pseudodiagnosticity: failure to account for base rates, & tendency to look for data that confirms one"s ideas rather than diagnostically relevant data. Availability heuristic: explains why we overestimate the frequency of remarkable events we just don"t pay attention to unremarkable events, so they seem relatively infrequent. Some think that there is a limit to what we as humans have the capacity to learn or understand. Fundamental attribution error: tendency to attribute the irrational behaviour of others to their competence rather than circumstance. Our failures to circumstance, and our successes to competence. Cognitive style: sets of skills, habits, acquired dispositions for how one recruits cognitive info or deal with cognitive limitations. **cognitive commitment: we only have a certain amount of cognitive resources, and we need to use them economically.

Get access

Grade+
$40 USD/m
Billed monthly
Grade+
Homework Help
Study Guides
Textbook Solutions
Class Notes
Textbook Notes
Booster Class
10 Verified Answers

Related Documents

Related Questions