PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Schizophrenia, Motivated Reasoning
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According to the hsm, people"s thinking about themselves and others can be described in terms of two broad information-processing strategies. These two strategies are often described as end- points on a continuum of processing effort that can be exerted in forming judgments: two processing modes. E. g. past experiences indicate that a person whose point of view achieves a wide consensus among others is often a person whose point of view is correct. Armed with this consensus implies correct- ness heuristic, perceivers may react to future encounters with a majority position on an issue in a heuristic fashion. They can superficially assess the situation by relying on the rule of thumb, forming an opinion in a top-down fashion without scrutinizing the actual arguments used by the majority in advocating their position. Thus, if most people agree with something, these perceivers will agree with it too, using the consensus as the basis for their opinion.