Errors in reasoning Flashcards
What is magical thinking?
Assumptions that do not hold up rational inquiry.
What is the law of contagion?
When two objects touch and pass on properties to one another, e.g. lucky charms
What is the law of similarity?
Things that resemble one another share fundamental properties.
What is homeopathy?
Properly conducted studied show no effect beyond placebo.
What is type 1 reasoning?
Quick like heuristics.
What is type 2 reasoning?
Taking longer to decide.
What can behaviour be depicted by?
Internal and external reasonings.
What are the two things behaviour can originate from?
Persons stable traits, free chosen.
Situational effects, somehow forced, high in social desirability.
What is hedonistic relevence?
If the behaviour is to be directly intended to hurt or benefit the person they will think its more personal for them to do it.
What is consensus?
The extent to which other people behave in the same way in a similar situation.
What is the idea of high and low internal consensus?
If everyone is laughing at a comedian they have high internal consensus, however, if the people laughing usually laugh at everything then consensus is lowered.
How are consensus errors most commonly made?
If the person making the judgement does not know the personality of the person they are judging.
What is multiple necessary causes?
Looking at different situations and causes from that person in order to see if the census is internal or external.
What is the actor observer effect?
Tendency to attribute our own behaviour mainly to situational causes, but others behaviour to internal. For example blame something you do on situation but something else does on themselves.
