PSY 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 48: Availability Heuristic, Temporal Lobe, Confirmation Bias
23 Dec 2018
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Psychologists who study cognition pay attention on the mental activities related with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating information. One of these activities is creating concepts (mental groupings of similar objects, events, We form concepts by creating prototypes (mental image or best example a category) ideas, or people) Example : when you think of a robin, you might think it is more of a bird compared. Once we place an item into a specific category, our memory of it shifts toward the to a penguin. Because the robin closely resembles our bird prototype. category prototype. Moment, the problem solvers" frontal lobes were active. It can distort one"s judgements of other people. (1) example : if a person from a specific ethnic or religious group performs a terrorist act, like the 9/11 attack, one"s. Those who are on the side of overconfidence live more happily. For instance, they seem more competent than others: belief perseverance.
