PSYC 180 Chapter Notes -Risk-Seeking, Simple Algorithm, Prospect Theory
8 May 2012
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Your pupils dilate when working on a problem. System 1 and system 2: system 1 operates automatically and quickly, with little or no effort and no sense of voluntary control, system 2 allocates attention to the effortful mental activities that demand it, including complex computations. Often associated with the subjective experience of agency, choice and concentration. We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness. System 1 has biases: systematic errors it is prone to make in specified circumstances. It sometimes answers easier questions than the one it was asked, and it has little understanding of logic and statistics. One task of system 2 is to overcome the impulses of system 1 it is in charge of self-control. Pupils are sensitive indicators of mental effort they dilate more if problems are hard than easy. The response to mental effort is distinct from emotional arousal.
