PSYC 215 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Representativeness Heuristic, Asthma, Availability Heuristic
13 May 2013
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Our judgements are only as good as the information we receive. We actively seek out information and the way we seek out information is biased by us so the. The way information is presented can skew our judgement information we seek out is thus affected. Our pre-existing knowledge, expectations and mental habits can influence our construal of information. Intuition and reason and how they interplay determines judgement we make. If we want to know how someone will react in a given situation we must understand how they perceive that situation. Research in social cognition looks at the limitations of our judgements to find out more about how we make them. Social cognition depends on information which can be limited, incorrect, misleading, or tainted by their pre-existing bias thus hampering our ability to make a good judgement. Willis and todorov completed an experiment where pictures were shown to a group of participants to make a judgement solely based on appearance.
