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Judgements and Decision Making

Judgements and decision making

Core Areas

  • Anticipated regret
  • Availability heuristic
  • Base rate information
  • Bayes' theorem
  • Conjunction fallacy
  • Decision making
  • Framing
  • Judgements
  • Loss aversion
  • Omission bias
  • Perceived justification
  • Posterior odds
  • Prior odds
  • Representativeness heuristic
  • Sunk-cost effect
  • Utility theory

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this chapter you should be able to;

  • define the key terms and theories involved in this topic;
  • understand that judgements are made on the basis of probabilities, including the use of prior and posterior odds and base rate information, the representativeness and availability heuristics;
  • use the set tasks to research the supporting evidence for these concepts and thus evaluate their usefulness; and
  • understand that decision making can be accounted for by utility theory but affected by loss aversion, the sunk-cost effect, framing, perceived justification, anticipated regret and self-esteem.

Running Themes

  • Ecological validity
  • Experimental cognitive psychology
  • Gestalt psychology
  • Rehearsal
  • Schema
  • Semantics

Introduction

Judgements involve looking at the conclusions we draw on ...

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