WorksheetsDecision making & long term memory
Total questions: 8
Worksheet time: 5mins
What is the conjunction fallacy?
People may not really understand percentages
That we perceive stereotypes as being more frequent than fringe cases
That we perceive members of a more specific group being more likely than a broader group
That we perceive members of a broader group being more likely than a more specific group
What does the fast & frugal perspective have in common with the heuristic & biases perspective?
They view heuristics as a error prone form of decision making.
They view heuristics as an adaptive way to make quick decisions
That they are a key component of system 2 decision making.
Both agree that heuristics can be useful when dealing with common situations.
How does utility differ from expected value?
Utility is a subjective weighting of choices
Utility is an objective weighting of choices
Utility is avoiding risky choices even when they may have a higher expected value
Utility arises when irrelevant features of a situation affect decisions
Which of the following is not possible to explain using loss aversion?
Framing effects
Endowment effect
Status quo bias
Invariance
Which is not a type of implicit memory?
Autobiographical episodic memory
Habit learning
Priming
Procedural memory
How might you best test to see if a patient has retrograde amnesia?
Ask questions about facts from their childhood
Evaluate their performance on the mirror drawing task
Test if they can learn to play the piano
Ask questions about events shortly before the traumatic event.
Which two are not evidence to support that memory is a reconstructive process?
Schemas
Misinformation effect
Training effects on mirror-drawing task
Priming effects
Which memory subtype has been described as "mental time travel"?
Semantic memory
Episodic memory
Priming
Habit learning
