PSYC 2310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Hindsight Bias, Fallacy
12 Nov 2015
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Decision-making shortcut in which we rely on our instinct instead of relying on more objective information. Availability heuristics is a mental shortcut to make judgement based on how easily they can bring something to mind. More influenced by salience of events than how often they occur. Involves automatic processing and uses little cognitive effort. Role of unconscious priming: priming is the increase availability to a given concept due to prior experience, influences peoples physical behaviour. Information available: amount of info we can bring to mind, use to ease of their recall as a guide, incomplete info can lead to biases in decision making. Tendency to perceive someone based on their similarity to a typical case. Some cases allow us to reach the right answer. Error in which people ignore numerical frequency (base rate) of an event in estimating how likely it is to occur: flying is less dangerous than driving.
