Addiction Cognitive Biases

Question 1

How do cognitive explain addictive behaviour?

Answer 1

Explains the way people think about behavior
Addictions illogical, addicts engage in behaviour that have clear negative outcomes but they do it anyway
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A problem in way addicts think about behaviour
Cognitive errors and biases leading them to feel rational choices

Question 2

What are heuristics?

Answer 2

Heuristics are rules of thumb that can be applied to guide decision making based on a limited subset of available information
Rely on less information, heuristics assumed facilitate faster decision making strategy’s requiring more information
Rules work well under most circumstances but can lead to systematic deviations from logics, probability and rational choice
Resulting in cognitive biases and many different types have been documents

Question 3

What are the 2 types of heuristics?

Answer 3

Availability
Representativeness

Question 4

Availability heuristics definition?

Answer 4

Kahneman and Tversky define this heuristic as a mental shortcut for making frequency or probability judgment based on the ease with instances or occurrences can be brought to mind more easily than others

Question 5

Availability heuristic example?

Answer 5

Events more easily recalled from memory, overasess how likely outcome is
E.g a gambler will experiences winning compared to losing

Question 6

Representativeness heuristic definition?

Answer 6

We often reply on heuristics when making probability judgments
This is the belief that random events have a pattern and that a particular event drawn from a small sample should represent what would be found in a larger sample

Question 7

Representative heuristics example?

Answer 7

Monte carl a roulette wheel had a run of black for a record of 26 times
How much would you bet on red
Next spin was black, lots of money was lost