Judgement - Chapter 12

Judgement - Chapter 12

Induction  Process where you try to go beyond given information There are two types of accounts for Induction:                 -Normative accounts - which tell us how things ought to go               -Descriptive accounts - which tell us how things are generally done Judgement Heuristics Heuristics for making judgments Attribute substitution - a strategy used when you're trying to evaluate something but you don't have access to the specific info needed. You therefore use other aspects of experience that is available to you and which you hope will act as a substitute for the info you need. Eg: You want to know whether to take Chemistry next term. You therefore, need to know how hard it is. You have no friends who've done the subject, so, you ask for a senior's opinion.  Two types of heuristics: Availability heuristic - estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind, we presume such events are common Representativeness Heuristic - judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes; may lead one to ignore other relevant information Availability Heuristic

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