Everyday delusions

Barely anything cause the slides dont help and I cba rewatching the video

Metacognition

• Thinking about thinking

• Is it epiphenomenal (no cause and effect) or would it affect behaviour?

Social perceptions

• Metacognition seems to be informed by these (i.e. How other people describe you, interact with you, etc) though it can also be informed by general self awareness

Metacognitive accuracy

• Perceptual decision making task and confidence (in accuracy): Despite performance being constant (around 70% accuracy across all subjects), confidence in accuracy was low? Idk.. I dont understand lmao

• Structural MRIs (I think for ^?) did something!

• There is lots of evidence implicating PFC in metacognitive accuracy

• Raises further questions:

• Cognitive mechanisms

• Domain generality

• Relations to disordered cognition

Distortions of metacognition

• Bias vs inaccuracy

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• The planning fallacy (Kahneman & Tversky, 1994): We are deluded about how long things take (even though we are quite good at estimating how long it will take other people to do things), which doesn't seem to be affected by expertise