Module 7: Overconfidence & Motivated Memories

Question 1

System 1

Answer 1

The intuitive, automatic, unconscious, and fast way of thinking

Question 2

System 2

Answer 2

The deliberate, controlled, conscious, and slower way of thinking.

Question 3

Automatic processing

Answer 3

“Implicit”thinking that is effortless, habitual, and without awareness; roughly corresponds to “intuition.
-System 1

Question 4

Controlled processing

Answer 4

“Explicit” thinking that is deliberate, reflective, and conscious.
-system 2

Question 5

Overconfidence Phenomenon

Answer 5

The tendency to be more confident than correct- to overestimate the accuracy of one’s beliefs.

Question 6

Confirmation Bias

Answer 6

A tendency to search for information that confirms one’s preconceptions

Question 7

Overconfident

Answer 7

Igor “I am always wrong”

They are confident that they are wrong

Question 8

Overconfidence

Answer 8

Your mean (average) confidence level is greater than your percent correct

Question 9

Example of studying

Answer 9

Because something makes sense you will think that you know it , so then you won’t study like you should and then you will fail

Question 10

Statically significant

Answer 10

It is relatively unlikely to occur purely by chance

Question 11

Example of statically significant

Answer 11

Flip a quarter for 15 times and get heads

- likely by chance it could happen “special powers”

Question 12

What are flops?

Answer 12

Coincidences

Question 13

Do people believe in floods?

Answer 13

Yes

Ex: coin example

Question 14

Social psychology is about?

Answer 14

Individuals

Question 15

What is the example of social psych?

Answer 15

Class introduce to the camera

Is is actually the imply presence of others

Question 16

Definition of Social Psych

Answer 16

Real imagine or imply presence of others affect what you think, feel and do

Question 17

Are we ethios believers in this class?

Answer 17

NO

Question 18

What is ethios?

Answer 18

God does not exist

Ateos

Question 19

What is agnostic?

Answer 19

I need evidence
I don’t believe anything without evidence (science)
Comes from observable phenomenon

Question 20

What are Believers?

Answer 20

Gods definitely exist

Question 21

What is observable phenomenon?

Answer 21

Concrete evidence

Question 22

What is the Myers breaks?

Answer 22

Personality measure where on dating sites they match you according to your personality
- you believe it because it makes sense

Question 23

Things that make sense are good enough for you to?

Answer 23

Believe it
Ex: myth of opposites attract
THERE IS NO EVIDENCE

Question 24

Who wins? Things that make sense and “sound” right or evidence?

Answer 24

Evidence

Question 25

What is validity?

Answer 25

The conclusion follows from the premises(assumptions) | An argument is valid if the conclusions follow from the assumptions

Question 26

What are premises?

Answer 26

Assumptions

Question 27

What is a sound argument?

Answer 27

When that turns out to be TRUE. Those assumptions are correct

Question 28

What is an example of a sound argument?

Answer 28

Women are the weaker sex they are emotionally unstable Leaders should have stability and not be affected by their emotions Therefore women should not be leaders

Question 29

Is the example of a sound argument valid?

Answer 29

Yes because we assume that. | But there is no evidence

Question 30

What is psychology?

Answer 30

Form of philosophy | Empirical philosophy

Question 31

What is empirical?

Answer 31

Based on evidence/concrete an observable

Question 32

Should you be overconfident?

Answer 32

No because everything will make sense

Question 33

What are barnum statements?

Answer 33

Are statements that are so vague that anybody can make sense of them in whatever way they want (predictions)

Question 34

What is an example of Barnum statements?

Answer 34

Horoscopes

Question 35

What is confirmation bias? (In class)

Answer 35

Phenomenon in which humans naturally think about info that confirms what they were told - Searching every single reason they think what they were told is true

Question 36

What is introversion/extroversion ?

Answer 36

Is one of the few things that these personalities measures take that actually have some soundness to it (evidence) to suggest that it does predict behavior.

Question 37

What is therapeutic touch?

Answer 37

Healing with no touch just by believing . “Energy” to heal

Question 38

Who believes and practices more the therapeutic touch ?

Answer 38

Nurses

Question 39

What was the 9 year old girl experiment?

Answer 39

People not looking and sensing in their hands the “energy” of the hand Sensing the human “energy” In experiments we expect for you to be right 50%

Question 40

What is the ethnicity experiment ? (In class)

Answer 40

If you are the minority by virtue you are 12% and you are also more salient

Question 41

What is salient?

Answer 41

Saliente | Destacado

Question 42

What is the definition of salient? (In class)

Answer 42

Noticed every “clown” if I am aware or obsess with them. Overestimate things that are LOWER in number Underestimate things that are HIGHER in number (noticeable)

Question 43

Humans tend to?

Answer 43

Overestimate

Question 44

What is systematic observation?

Answer 44

Examination of behaviors too gain reliable data unbiased by the observer interpretation

Question 45

What is operational definition?

Answer 45

Specifically defined

Question 46

Everything that is not an operational definition

Answer 46

Does not mean is a barnum statement

Question 47

In science we need to

Answer 47

Measure

Question 48

Must things of what we do are

Answer 48

Automatic

Question 49

Reconstruction

Answer 49

Have a schema of something and you are reconstructing and recreating a memory

Question 50

Ex of reconstruction

Answer 50

Women on their period

Question 51

What is blindsight

Answer 51

People can see, but they don’t know they can see Ex cup to the blind guy We do it automatically (System 1)