PSYC 464 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Satisficing, Bounded Rationality, Cognitive Load
9 Feb 2017
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Instead of making optimal (rational) decision, humans satisfice. Emotions: ekman, determining people"s emotions based on their current facial expressions: Culturally independent when asked to show an expression: Found working with tribes in new guinea. Misattributions were found when matching the picture of a face to an emotion: System 1 & 2: common characteristics, require attention, are disrupted when attention is drawn away, system 1, characteristics: Answers easier questions than it was asked. You know the lines are the same length but you still see one as being longer than the other. Lecture 2: chapter 1 & 2: system 2, characteristics: Pupils will dilated as a function of cognitive load. Associated with the subjective experience of agency, choice and concentration: interaction between systems, when both systems are active: S2 is on a low effort mode: s1 generates input to s2: S2 comes into play when behavior needs to be monitored.
