Your observers are cognitive misers (and so are you) Flashcards
What did Susan Fiske and Shelley Taylor explore in the 1980s
Human tendency to only think as much as they feel they need to
What is the speed vs accuracy trade off
The faster we get through the work, but make more mistakes.
The slower we get through the work the more accurate it is.
Most of the time the gist will do we go with that.
What a cognitive misers favourite tools
Heuristics - rules of thumb. Things that come to mind more frequently occur more frequently.
Assumptions guide how we see and interpret things
What is confirmation bias
When you look at something you see what you want to see
If you fit into someone’s stereotypes it will influence how they see you
What is the primacy effect?
Information that we get early on influences our later perceptions
What happens when someone knows you for a while?
They’ll start seeing you as they have always seen you
What are stereotypes?
They can express a positive or negative quality.
They categorise people and associate them with behaviours, traits, skills, appearance.
They reflect a generalisation.
Even if you don’t believe in them they can exert influence.
They don’t need to be true to exert influence. Their existence is enough.
What’s the halo effect?
Because someone exhibits a certain positive trait we are likely to associate other positive traits with them (until proven otherwise)
What’s cognitive dissonance?
Psychological pain caused by holding two or more beliefs that conflict
e.g. Bob’s a good person who steals from poor people.
We need to adjust our beliefs somehow to remove the dissonance
What’s the false consensus effect?
Other people think and feel what I feel
What’s false uniqueness?
We tend to believe that we are more positive example than others.
e.g. we are more noble, friendly, kind
