Free will Flashcards
Name the ways we can be free in a deterministic world (7)
Understand how you are free, what you are, the question of free will, how mind generates choices, how deliberation led to you, how a balanced mind is a free mind, how free will has evolved
Name the 3 cognitive biases
Bandwagon effect, hindsight bias, impact bias
Explain the bandwagon effect
Tendency to do or believe things as many people do or believe the same
What is hindsight bias?
Tendency to see past events as being predictable at the time those events happened
Define impact bias
Tendency to overestimate the length or intensity of the impact of future feeling states (overthinking)
Describe cognitive dissonance
Refers to situation involving conflicting attitudes, beliefs or behaviours
What does cognitive dissonance produce and suggest?
Produces feelings or discomfort leading to alteration in attitudes, beliefs or behaviours to reduce discomfort. Suggests we have inner drive to hold attitudes and beliefs in harmony
What does Wegner describe ‘you’ as?
You are an illusion
How does evolution define ‘you’?
You are a unit of selection, a collection of matter and beliefs
When is it said that an organism is responsible for its actions?
When it could have done otherwise (principle of possible alternatives)
Name the 3 ways to reduce dissonance
Lower importance of discordant factor, add consistent elements, change a dissonant factor
Describe the 2 dual processes?
Fast and automatic (unconscious), slow and effortful (deliberate)
What does Jungian describe ‘you’ as?
A collection of conscious beliefs and unconscious associations
How does the modern world define ‘you’?
You are an individual and shouldn’t care what others think about you
Describe the medieval definition of ‘you’
You were defined by your community and what people thought about you was extremely important
