PSYC 1010 Chapter 2: Module 2

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

2. 1 how does our everyday thinking sometimes lead us to a wrong conclusion. Intuition: an effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted w/ explicit, conscious reasoning: some think psychological ndings simply reiterate this. However we often underestimate the problems with intuition: studies show people greatly over estimate their lie detection accuracy, interview assessments, risk predictions etc. Hindsight bias: the tendency to believe, after hearing the outcome, that one would have been able to predict it: the i- knew-it-all along phenomena. The opposite can be true where intuitions can be right: ex. psychologists found that physical separations strengths romantic attraction; as the saying goes absence makes the heart grow fonder . Many scholarly papers found that hindsight bias affects people all over the world in every age group. Sometimes human intuitions (i. e. grandmas sayings) are correct bc of they come from observing human behaviour: therefor it shouldn"t be surprising that psychologists conclude the same thing.