Cognitive Approach - Reliability of Cognitive Processes

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Systematic errors
affects decision making and judgments.
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Assimilation
organize that new information so that it fits with and existing schema.
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Adaptation
is the foundation of the piaget's theory of cognitive development.
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Accommodation
changing an existing schema or creating a new schema to fit the new information.
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Heuristics
mental shortcuts to come to a decision.
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Retrieval of memory
________- influenced by perception, past experience, cultural factors.
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initial piece of info
Anchoring occurs when individuals use a(n) ________ to make subsequent judgments.
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Reconstructive memory
human memory is not stable but rather a reconstruction that may be altered over time, through discussions with others.
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Adaptation process
the process of taking in, processing and using new information.
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Adaptation has 2 process
assimilation and accommodation
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assimilation
organize that new information so that it fits with and existing schema
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Accommodation
changing an existing schema or creating a new schema to fit the new information
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Retrieval of memory
influenced by perception, past experience, cultural factors
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Systematic errors in thinking
affects decision making and judgments
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Use heuristics
when we don't have time/resources/desire
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Biases influence our decision making sometimes because of ego depletion
a lack of self control or will-power
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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
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Many effects on behaviour
one of them is the effect of anchoring on a judges verdict
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Who discovered reconstructive memory?
Bartlett