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Psych 101 - Chap 1
Psych David G. Myers 10th edition
Question | Answer |
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Our thinking, memory and attitude operate on two levels. What are those levels called? | Conscious and unconscious levels. |
What are the three phenomena that illustrate why we cannot rely solely on intuition and common sense? | hindsight bias, judgmental overconfidence, and our tendency to perceive patterns in random events. |
What is hindsight bias? | It is s the inclination, after an event has occurred, to see the event as having been predictable, despite there having been little or no objective basis for predicting it, prior to its occurrence |
What is overconfidence bias? | This effect is a well-established bias in which someone's subjective confidence in their judgments is reliably greater than their objective accuracy, especially when confidence is relatively high |