UoN Psychology Heuristics Questions

Answer the following 4 questions Availability heuristic occurs when people overestimate the occurrence of more memorable instances or events because these are readily available to memory when trying to decide or to answer a question. 1. Give an example of how you have recently used the availability heuristic. 2. Research other heuristics (there are hundreds of them) online. Discuss another heuristic and share an example of how you have used it. People mistrust scientific findings, usually because the finding conflicts with a person’s worldview. Misinformation occurs when people remember something they read without engaging in careful analysis or evaluation and thus incorporate that information into their general knowledge. 3. Why does this happen? (Address both your attitudes and beliefs in your argument) 4. What can you do to avoid this in the future?