Week 5

Question 1

availability heuristic

Answer 1

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

Question 2

misattribution

Answer 2

the misattribution of memory or source misattribution is the misidentification of the origin of a memory by the person making the memory recall.

Question 3

Representativeness Heuristic

Answer 3

involves estimating the likelihood of an event by comparing it to an existing prototype that already exists in our minds. This prototype is what we think is the most relevant or typical example of a particular event or object.

Question 4

typicality effects

Answer 4

the finding that people are quicker to make category judgments about typical members of a category than they are to make such judgments about atypical members. For example, they are more quickly able to judge that a dog is a mammal than they can judge that a whale is a mammal.

Question 5

conjunction fallacy

Answer 5

(is a type of representative heuristic) a formal fallacy that occurs when it is assumed that specific conditions are more probable than a single general one.

Question 6

Regression To The Mean

Answer 6

eventually things will go towards the mean, average