PSYC 215 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Psy, Representativeness Heuristic, Daniel Kahneman

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 215
• Professor: Julie Caouette

Document Summary

Chapter 4: social cognition: thinking about the people and situations. How will my professor react if i ask more time? . Inferring personality from physical appearance, sometimes we have very little information, but make judgments anyway. Social judgment are often inaccurate, prone to many types of errors and biases. Mistakes in social judgment can produce consequences that may be either harmless or dire. Studying errors and biases: help understand how the mind work (mistakes & mechanisms) Research on social judgments: how people think about the social world, examines how people make decisions, interpret past events, understand current events and make predictions for future events. The judgments made will ultimately influence behaviors (of self and of others) Social judgments are often inaccurate, prone to many types of errors and biases. Mistakes in social judgment can produce consequences that may either harmless or die. Studying errors and biases (mistakes) help us understand how the mind works (mechanisms)