cold theories and hot theories Flashcards

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Cold theories

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range effects, misinformation effect, availability heuristic, functional fixedness, self-perception theory

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hours spent on social media study

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showed range effect, 0->2.5 hers a day vs 2.5->4.5 yielded different results

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Range effects

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responses are influenced by the range of responses available (people infer average, like anchoring)
- biases can impact subsequent responses

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misinformation effect

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new info leads to errors in memory
- memory = faulty reconstruction
- E.g. leading questions “How fast were the cars going when they ____ each other?”

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Availability heuristic

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we judge the frequency of something by how easily we can remember examples
- last names
- heuristic = mental shortcut -> create biases

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functional fixedness

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tendency to think in terms of traditional uses for objects - limits create problem solving
- Emma screwdriver is used… to screw, pendulum weight

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Hot cognition

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cognitive dissonance, motivated reasoning, framing effect, confirmation bias

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cognitive dissonance (CD)

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discomfort created by conflict between 2 thoughts, or between a thought and behavior
- we react by adjusting beliefs and behaviors to make ourselves seem consistent

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insufficient justification

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social situation causes our behaviors, but threat/reward is insufficient to make us realize it
- study: boring task, asked to lie and say it was fun (group 1: $1 group 2: $20)
- results: those who were paid $1, began to believe they had fun (had dissonance, unlike $20 group)

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study on CD

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rate 8 items on desirability
- free choice paradigm: make choice between 2 items (high vs low CD)
- results: changed rating after choosing

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biases are driven by…

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both hot and cold processes

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Cold explanation : self perception theory (SPT)

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we judge our own attitudes using the same cognitive processes used to judge other people’s attitudes

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motivated reasoning neural basis: political study

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  • participants: right handed males, Republican and Democrats
  • contradictory statements rated 1-4
  • rated their candidates contradictory statements as significant less contradictory
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Hot explanation - neural areas had more activity…

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Anterior cingulate cortex (ACC): anxiety, negative emotion etc…

Ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC): judging value (i.e. emotional value)

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fMRI studies are consistent with CD theory’s claim that…

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that contradictions create a state of discomfort, which then motivates a change in one’s stated attitude or behavior (to appear more consistent))

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Study: boring taks in fMRI

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hot neural regions:
- ACC
- Insula: involved in pain perception, disgust, visceral “gut” feelings

more activation = greater attitude change
- ACC and insult may drive change
- dissonance = state of discomfort

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Emotion-related brain activity (ACC, etc…) is associated with

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  • politically biased judgements
  • attitude change in the insufficient justification effect
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Marijuana Study (CD)

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3.50$ or 35$$ to state opposite opinion to a proc, con or uncommitted audience
- attitude change was greatest where there was only $3.50 and communicating with an uncommitted audience
- suggested CD and insufficient justification effect is increased when our behavior have potential negative consequences

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Framing Effect study

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600 people
1. A. 200 live B. 1/3 600 live, 2/3 600 die (chose A)
2. A. 400 die B. 1/3 600 live, 2/3 600 die (chose B
- people are more willing to take a risk when their is risk of losing something

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Framing effect

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the way information is presented impacted how we interpret that information

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Loss Aversion

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stronger motivation to avoid bad things than to seek good things
- proposed explanation for endowment effect: selling price > buying price because selling involves losing the item

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Pizza study

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build up or scale down
- scale down ended with more ingredients, loss aversion

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organ donation study

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opt in less likely than opt out
could be…
- misinformation effect
- effort avoidance
- loss aversion

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Effort avoidance

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given 2 paths we choose less work path

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confirmation bias
finds info that will prove us right - type of motivated reasoning
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motivated reasoning
we rely on biased cognitive processes, which we choose selectively based on our goals - accuracy goals -directional goals
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accuracy goals
one where we are motivated to arrive at the most accurate possible conclusion. These occur when the cost of being inaccurate is high.
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directional goals
one where we are motivated to arrive at a particular conclusion. We will thus narrow our thinking, selecting beliefs, etc. that support the conclusion.