Psychology Ch 2 Beauty and Necessity of Good Research Design

3 Written Questions

1. Systematic errors in thinking.
2. Heuristic that involves estimating the likelihood of an occurrence based on the ease with which it comes to our minds.
3. Surgical procedure that severs fibres connecting the frontal lobes of the brain from the underlying thalamus.

3 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tendency to overestimate how well we could have successfully forecast known outcomes. Ex. I knew it all along.
   1. Availability
   2. Heuristics
   3. Cognitive Biases
   4. Hindsight bias
2. Heuristic that involves judging the probability of an event by its superficial similarity to a prototype.
   1. Heuristics
   2. Representativeness
   3. Base rate
   4. Overconfidence
3. Mental shortcuts that help us to streamline our thinking and make sense of our world.
   1. Hindsight bias
   2. Heuristics
   3. Overconfidence
   4. Base rate

2 True/False Questions

1. Overconfidence → Tendency to overestimate our ability to make correct predictions.

   True        False

2. Base rate → How common a characteristic or behaviour is in the general population.

   True        False