week 1 Belief bias Flashcards

8995933538	lay theory	Cultural wisdom, past experience, expert opinion	0
8995941683	confirmation bias	Tendency to be more responsive to evidence that confirms one's beliefs and less responsive to evidence that challenges one's beliefs	1
8995955709	Selective Exposure	Biased search for supportive information	2
8996013802	Biased Threshold	Confirming arguments = Takes less to convince you Require less consistent evidence to accept hypothesis than inconsistent information to reject a hypothesis	3
8996024030	Alternative Hypotheses	The probability of that observation, given that the hypo is true, issubstantially larger than the probability of that observation given that the hypothesis is false	4
8996038499	Barnum effect	so vague that it represents everyone	5
8996046003	illusory covariation	a pattern that people believe they perceive in the data such that one variable predicts another	6
8996051240	Illusory Correlation	Tendency to overestimate relationship between variables that are related only very slightly or not at all	7
8996125947	Belief Perseverance	Tendency to continue endorsing a belief even when evidence has completely undermined it.	8