PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Code, Advantageous, User Friendly
23 Jan 2017
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People often draw conclusions from their experiences. Once people have drawn a conclusion, they often take another step trying to think through the implications of their new belief. Finally, people make a lot of decisions everyday: some decisions are trivial, but other decisions can be life-changing. There are limits to what can be learned from experience: sometimes the information provided by the world is ambiguous or incomplete, sometimes our memories for our experience are selective, or distorted. So we need to ask how deeply these considerations cut into our ability to make judgments and to draw conclusions based on what we have seen, heard, or read. Choosing classes for next semester and so trying to figure out how hard developmental psychology is: to figure this out you may rely on: Questions about frequencies: assessments of how often various events have happened in the past. In this case, frequency estimates are often crucial for out judgments.
