PSY 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Speed Reading, Linguistic Relativity, Stroop Effect
27 Dec 2017
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Thinking any mental activity or processing of information, including learning, remembering, perceiving, communicating, believing, and deciding. Cognitive bias systematic error in thinking (predispositions and default expectations that we interpret our experiences and that operate in our everyday lives) Representativeness heuristic heuristic that involves judging the probability of an event by its superficial similarity to a prototype (think of a stereotype) Base rate how common a characteristic or behaviour is in the general population. Availability heuristic heuristic that involves estimating the likelihood of an occurrence based on the ease with which it comes to our minds (e. g. less trees downtown than up north we just assume this to be correct) Hindsight bias our tendency to overestimate how well we could have predicted something after it has already occurred. Concept our knowledge and ideas about a set of objects, actions, and characteristics that share core properties. Decision making the process of selecting among a set of possible alternatives.
