Module 7: Overconfidence & Motivated Memories Flashcards

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System 1

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The intuitive, automatic, unconscious, and fast way of thinking

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System 2

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The deliberate, controlled, conscious, and slower way of thinking.

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Automatic processing

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“Implicit”thinking that is effortless, habitual, and without awareness; roughly corresponds to “intuition.
-System 1

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Controlled processing

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“Explicit” thinking that is deliberate, reflective, and conscious.
-system 2

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Overconfidence Phenomenon

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The tendency to be more confident than correct- to overestimate the accuracy of one’s beliefs.

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Confirmation Bias

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A tendency to search for information that confirms one’s preconceptions

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Overconfident

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Igor “I am always wrong”

They are confident that they are wrong

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Overconfidence

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Your mean (average) confidence level is greater than your percent correct

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Example of studying

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Because something makes sense you will think that you know it , so then you won’t study like you should and then you will fail

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Statically significant

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It is relatively unlikely to occur purely by chance

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Example of statically significant

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Flip a quarter for 15 times and get heads

- likely by chance it could happen “special powers”

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What are flops?

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Coincidences

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Do people believe in floods?

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Yes

Ex: coin example

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Social psychology is about?

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Individuals

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What is the example of social psych?

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Class introduce to the camera

Is is actually the imply presence of others

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Definition of Social Psych

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Real imagine or imply presence of others affect what you think, feel and do

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Are we ethios believers in this class?

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NO

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What is ethios?

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God does not exist

Ateos

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What is agnostic?

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I need evidence
I don’t believe anything without evidence (science)
Comes from observable phenomenon

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What are Believers?

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Gods definitely exist

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What is observable phenomenon?

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Concrete evidence

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What is the Myers breaks?

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Personality measure where on dating sites they match you according to your personality
- you believe it because it makes sense

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Things that make sense are good enough for you to?

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Believe it
Ex: myth of opposites attract
THERE IS NO EVIDENCE

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Who wins? Things that make sense and “sound” right or evidence?

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Evidence

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What is validity?

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The conclusion follows from the premises(assumptions)

An argument is valid if the conclusions follow from the assumptions

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What are premises?

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Assumptions

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What is a sound argument?

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When that turns out to be TRUE. Those assumptions are correct

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What is an example of a sound argument?

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Women are the weaker sex they are emotionally unstable
Leaders should have stability and not be affected by their emotions
Therefore women should not be leaders

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Is the example of a sound argument valid?

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Yes because we assume that.

But there is no evidence

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What is psychology?

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Form of philosophy

Empirical philosophy

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What is empirical?

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Based on evidence/concrete an observable

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Should you be overconfident?

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No because everything will make sense

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What are barnum statements?

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Are statements that are so vague that anybody can make sense of them in whatever way they want (predictions)

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What is an example of Barnum statements?

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Horoscopes

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What is confirmation bias? (In class)

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Phenomenon in which humans naturally think about info that confirms what they were told
- Searching every single reason they think what they were told is true

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What is introversion/extroversion ?

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Is one of the few things that these personalities measures take that actually have some soundness to it (evidence) to suggest that it does predict behavior.

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What is therapeutic touch?

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Healing with no touch just by believing . “Energy” to heal

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Who believes and practices more the therapeutic touch ?

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Nurses

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What was the 9 year old girl experiment?

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People not looking and sensing in their hands the “energy” of the hand
Sensing the human “energy”
In experiments we expect for you to be right 50%

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What is the ethnicity experiment ? (In class)

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If you are the minority by virtue you are 12% and you are also more salient

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What is salient?

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Saliente

Destacado

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What is the definition of salient? (In class)

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Noticed every “clown” if I am aware or obsess with them.
Overestimate things that are LOWER in number
Underestimate things that are HIGHER in number (noticeable)

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Humans tend to?

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Overestimate

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What is systematic observation?

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Examination of behaviors too gain reliable data unbiased by the observer interpretation

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What is operational definition?

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Specifically defined

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Everything that is not an operational definition

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Does not mean is a barnum statement

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In science we need to

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Measure

48
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Must things of what we do are

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Automatic

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Reconstruction

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Have a schema of something and you are reconstructing and recreating a memory

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Ex of reconstruction

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Women on their period

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What is blindsight

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People can see, but they don’t know they can see
Ex cup to the blind guy
We do it automatically
(System 1)