Understanding Decision-Making Processes

What model will you use for a question:

Describe one model of thinking and/or decision making.

(a)  

Describe System 1 thinking

Answer explanation

How is System 1 able to make quick decisions?

Answer explanation

1. 1. Innate reactions

2. 2. Schemas

3. 3. Heuristics

Which system is in charge of our lives most of the time?

• System 1

• System 2

According to Alter & Oppenheimer (2007), how does font difficulty affect cognitive processing?

• Easy-to-read fonts make people use deeper thinking processes (System 2).

• Difficult-to-read fonts make people use deeper thinking processes (System 2).

• Font difficulty has no effect on cognitive processing

• Easy-to-read fonts lead to faster decision-making

In what way can the findings of Alter & Oppenheimer (2007) be applied to educational settings?

If I meet two students from your school, and they are brilliant psychology students, I may then conclude that your school must have an amazing psychology program. This is an example of ..

• Stereotype

• Heuristic

• Representativeness bias

What is representativeness heuristics?

• judging the probability of an event based on how similar it is to a typical example in our mind (librarian or farmer?)

• judging the likelihood of an event based on how easily examples come to mind (an airplane crash)