Social Psych Flashcards
Gamblers fallacy
Mistaken belief that the chance of an event occurring depends on occurrences of previous events
Illusory correlation
Overestimate link between unrelated events
Base rate fallacy
Focus on specific case over statistical/population information
False consensus bias
Overestimate number of people who share your beliefs, etc.
Fundamental attribution error
Overestimate the cause as due to dispositional over situational factors
Actor/observer effect
Judges caused different for your self vs others
Self serving bias
Success due to dispositional factors. Failures due to situational factors.
Representative heuristic
Judge based in similar categories
Availability heuristic
Estimate based on most accessible/east to recall information
Simulation heuristic
Judge based on ease of imagining it
Anchoring/adjustment heuristic
Judge based on initial value
Confirmation bias
Look for information that confirms previously held beliefs
