Week 04 Flashcards
Judgement is…?
a set of evaluative and inferential processes that people have at their disposal and can draw on in the process of making decisions
Decision making is…?
is the process of making a choice based on the available options, with the consequences of those choices being critical
Judgement vs decision making…?
Making a choice is based on how you judge the situation
Name 3 theories concerned with social judgement
- Psychophysics: human judgement that is made in terms of laws of perception
- Social judgement theory
- Social cognition
LIST: Psychophysics: human judgement that is made in terms of laws of perception theories (4)…?
- Weber-fechner law
- Regression
- Range-frequency
- Accentuation
The Weber-fechner law is…
Just noticeable difference
The regression theory states…
high frequency events seem to be understimulated while. low frequency events seem to be overstimulated
The range-frequency theory is….
categorical, to give yellow card or not (it can be fuzzy)
The accentuation theory is…
bigger differences between two groups (it is less fuzzy)
The social judgement theory states…
Brunswick (1955) suggested that people’s achievement or ultimate goal is based on their ability to perceive their environment as accurately as possible
Problem with the social judgement theory?
People need to have direct access to ‘true’ states of being (distal variables/criteria), that is a true sense of the world around them which is difficult. Therefore, they must infer (proximal variables/cues)
Explain the social cognitive theory?
Concerned with social knowledge and cognitive processes when a person constructs their reality (can be subjective)
- In other words, ‘it is the study of how people make sense of other people and themselves’ - Bar eli (2011)
The encoded memory…?
Of the offence is stored for future reference
Causal attribution…?
Factors that contribute to an outcome (emotional, social, behavioural)
Impression formation…?
Impressions of another player may effect our performance
Cognitive illusions include…?
bias
A doctor/physio must judge distal variables (_____) when they only have access to the proximal variables (_____). As they become more practiced the divide between the two variables decreases = skilled judgement (expertise)
illness, symptoms
Decision making theories are generally classified by their _____ or their _____
nature (deterministic or probabilistic), timeline
Timeline decision making theories can be divided into 2 subcategories?
- static: options compared at the same time
- dynamic: options compared sequentially (different time)
- OR both together
Explain the subjective expected utility (SEU) theory…?
Static AND deterministic framework —> combine uncertainty
A) “uncertainty”: probability of success
B) “utility”: value of the chosen option