Biases in judgment and decision-making WF-PS-BJD-ER
Topics:
1. Introduction. Rationality of human cognition. Kahneman and Tversky’s research program on judgment and decision making.
2. Base-rate neglect.
3. Pseudocontingency.
4. Hindsight bias
5. Conjunction fallacy
6. Support theory and subadditivity in judgment of probability.
7. Cognitive dissonance and choice induced preference change.
8. Preference reversals.
9. Pollyanna principle. Anchoring effect
10. Associative memory illusion- DRM paradigm.
11. Misinformation effect
12. The Moses illusion
13. Misattribution and cryptomnesia
14. Validity effect. Mere exposure effect.
15. Concluding remarks.
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Preliminary Requirements
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Learning outcomes
Student knows and understands what the specificity of experimental approach to judgment and decision making is.
Student knows and understands what the analysis of judgment/decision processes is and how it should proceed.
The student is ready to complement by herself the knowledge and skills using latest reports from the research on human judgment and decision making. She/he understands and uses specialized terminology in English in the field of cognitive psychology.
Assessment criteria
Lectures end with a written examination in the form of a test (students will be given a set of supporting questions in advance). There will be four answer options with one correct answer in each test question.
Assessment criteria:
The final grade will depend on:
- participation in lectures,
- the result of the final test.
A necessary condition to receive a positive mark is: obtaining minimum 55% of points from the final test and not more than 5 absences.
Obtaining such a result means that the student has achieved the learning outcomes at a sufficient level.
Bibliography
Readings:
Gallo, D. A. (2006). Associative illusions of memory: False memory research in DRM and related tasks. Psychology Press.
Pohl, R. (Ed.) (2016). Cognitive illusions. Intriguing phenomena in judgement, thinking and memory. 2nd Ed. Psychology Press.
Schacter, D. L. (2001). The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers. New York, Houghton Mifflin.
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