Discovering Psychology
Discovering Psychology
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ISBN: 9781464171055
Author: Sandra E. Hockenbury, Susan A. Nolan, Don H. Hockenbury
Publisher: Worth Publishers
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Studying cognition (thinking) has shown us that we are influenced by our individual concepts and perceptions. We may not be able to get past our mental set to see something from a different perspective. We vary in our mental flexibility and we all use certain short cuts in thinking. One of these short cuts, the availability heuristic, can lead to incorrect beliefs by causing us to overestimate the frequency of an event through remembering dramatic, recent events most easily.

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