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PYC3701 SUMMARY 2021/2
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A comprehensive old-school summary of prescribed work for this module.
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1.
DEFINE Heuristics
Answer: Simple (mental) rules for making complex decisions or drawing inferences in a rapid and efficient manner
2.
DEFINE Information Overload
Answer: Occurs when the demands on our cognitive ability are greater than its capacity (capacity also depleted by excessive stress)
3.
DEFINE Representativeness Heuristic
Answer: A mental shortcut used when making judgments about the probability of an event under uncertainty [proz.com]
4.
DEFINE Prototypes
Answer: A list of attributes commonly possessed by persons linking them to a certain category. OR Preconceived notions [proz.com]
5.
DEFINE Base Rates
Answer: Frequency with which given events / categories occur in the total population
6.
DEFINE Availability Heuristic
Answer: Also known as availability bias: A mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person\\\'s mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method or decision [Wikipedia]
7.
DEFINE Anchoring & Adjustment Heuristic
Answer: Tendency to deal with uncertainty by using what we know as a starting point (anchor) and then making adjustments to it
8.
DEFINE Portion Size Effect
Answer: Tendency to eat more when receiving a larger portion than with a smaller portion. ~ Marchiori, Papies & Klein (2014)
9.
DEFINE Status Quo Heuristic
Answer: The belief that things are better the way they are currently than any other novel (new) alternative
10.
DEFINE Schemas
Answer: Mental (cognitive) frameworks that help us to organise social info, guide our actions & process info relevant to certain contexts
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