Lecture 6 - Evaluating the outcomes of decisions

Question 1

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Read purple writing on page 1 G doc notes.

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Question 2

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Describe (Harris et al., 2009) experiment 1.

Answer 2

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See page 2-4 on G doc notes.

Question 3

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Describe (Harris et al., 2009) experiment 5.

Answer 3

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See page 4-5 on G doc notes.

Question 4

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Read turquoise writing onwards on page 5 on G doc notes.

Answer 4

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Question 5

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Things to get out of this lecture and reading (and previous ones):

General theories as tools for thinking systematically and analytically about:

• how basic underlying psychological processes play out across many diverse settings.
• the key inputs to those processes (e.g., prior knowledge, evidence)
• how changes in those inputs should, hypothetically, change outputs (i.e., responses, behaviour, judgments)
• what sort of experiments/findings might be relevant
• how to integrate and evaluate diverse findings to try to understand what might cause those findings

Answer 5

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