Cognitive Approach - Reliability of Cognitive Processes

Systematic errors

Systematic errors

affects decision making and judgments.

Assimilation

organize that new information so that it fits with and existing schema.

Adaptation

is the foundation of the piaget's theory of cognitive development.

Accommodation

changing an existing schema or creating a new schema to fit the new information.

Heuristics

mental shortcuts to come to a decision.

Retrieval of memory

________- influenced by perception, past experience, cultural factors.

initial piece of info

Anchoring occurs when individuals use a(n) ________ to make subsequent judgments.

Reconstructive memory

human memory is not stable but rather a reconstruction that may be altered over time, through discussions with others.

Adaptation process

the process of taking in, processing and using new information.

Adaptation has 2 process

assimilation and accommodation

assimilation

organize that new information so that it fits with and existing schema

Accommodation

changing an existing schema or creating a new schema to fit the new information

Retrieval of memory

influenced by perception, past experience, cultural factors

Systematic errors in thinking

affects decision making and judgments

Use heuristics

when we don't have time/resources/desire

Biases influence our decision making sometimes because of ego depletion

a lack of self control or will-power

Demonstrate cognitive biases when our cognitive load is too high

too many things on our mind (in working memory) and does not allow us the mental resources for a solution

Many effects on behaviour

one of them is the effect of anchoring on a judges verdict

Who discovered reconstructive memory?

Bartlett