Chapter 1: Everthing Is An Inference Flashcards
What is one way we can counter incidental, irrelevant perceptions and cognitions that can affect our judgment and behavior?
Try to encounter the objects and people in as many different circumstances as possible if a judgment about it is important.
Best predictor of future behavior?
Past behavior. In the book, it’s mentioned as the most powerful lesson in psychology.
But a caveat: only behaviors that can be observed in a variety of settings, roles and context are stronger predictors. Not in only same type situations.
What is the availability heuristic?
We use this to judge the frequency or plausibility of a given event.
The more easily examples of the vent come to mind, the more frequent or plausible it seem.
Give a few examples of availability heuristic
Death by earthquake or death by asthma.
Remember more of earthquake death, so that seems more.
Actually earthquake deaths are more
What is representativeness heuristic?
Events are judge more likely to the prototype of the event than they are less similar.
Eg: Is She a lawyer? If she resembles more of what I think a lawyer should look like she is most likely one.
Or if I met her at an event typically attended by lawyers, I would assume she is one.
How does representative heuristic influences judgment about casualties?
JFK assassination: magnitude was big,
So mistakenly thinks that a syndicate was involved; rather than an individual
What is a schema?
Cognitive frameworks, templates or rule systems that we apply to the world to make sense of it.
How to explain schema to someone?
When you think of fast food, what comes to mind?
When you think of youth what comes to mind?
When you think of vitility, what comes to mind?
Are stereotypes a kind of schema?
Yes.
How can I take advantage of schema priming?
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Can perceptions, judgments and beliefs be considered direct readout of reality?
No. They are inferences and not direct readout of reality.
