Week 9

Question 1

sailence bias

Answer 1

assessing something as more prevalent if it comes to mind very readily

Question 2

confirmation bias

Answer 2

different judgements based on framing
attend more to evidence confirming their expectations

Question 3

heuristics

Answer 3

rules of thumb/strategies

Question 4

representativeness heuristics

Answer 4

strategy we use to make quick judgements about situations and people

Question 5

avaliability heuristic

Answer 5

tendency to assess outcomes as more probable if they come to mind readily

Question 6

thinking two systems

Answer 6

system 1: fast, automatic
system 2: slow, effortful

Question 7

schemas

Answer 7

mental knowledge structures based on experience

Question 8

scripts

Answer 8

common action routines

Question 9

thinking definition

Answer 9

conscious experience of generating mental representations and operating on them in some way

Question 10

default mode network

Answer 10

mind wandering, integrating past and present, imagination, creating scenarios for the future

Question 11

modes of thinking

Answer 11

open-ended vs goal directed: different parts of the brain active

Question 12

open-ended reflection

Answer 12

default mode netword

Question 13

goal-directed thinking

Answer 13

the executive control network

Question 14

fast thinking

Answer 14

uses heuristics, schemas

Question 15

slow thinking

Answer 15

goal-orientated thinking; open-ended reflection

Question 16

hot cognition

Answer 16

mental processes involved in making judgements and decisions in situation involving strong emotion

Question 17

Damasio

Answer 17

we use emotional markers in everyday situations to make decisions

Question 18

hot cognition and social inference-making

Answer 18

hard for people with brain damage to interpret subtle social cues