Assignment task:
Respond to these two peer comments with thoughts, agree or disagree, feedback, questions, and concerns on this post-Describe several heuristics that you might use or that you have used when deciding whether you should (a) study especially hard for a test and (b) ask someone for a date (or accept a date). Under what circumstances are these heuristics likely to contribute to poor decision making?
1. The ways I would describe heuristics are mental shortcuts that can facilitate problem solving and probability judgements these strategies are generalizations or rules of thumb.reduce cognitive load.can be effective for making immediate judgements, however they often result in irrational or inaccurate conclusions.
2. When deciding how hard we are going to study for a test we might use the availability heuristic. We might decide that some concepts or homework is hard or easy based on how it is presented or how it looks. This could lead to poor decision making because we might find that after we get into the homework it is not as hard a concept as we might have pictured in our head (Myers & DeWall 2018). An Example of this is this assignment, when I first looked at the word heuristic I thought that it might be a hard concept to understand because the word was unfamiliar to me but after I read the module I realized that it is a concept that I could understand.
When I decide to ask someone on a date I might use the representativeness heuristic to inform my decision. In other words I might use preconceived notions to estimate what someone's personality might be. Subconsciously I might pick someone who wears glasses because I like a partner who is smart. This could be a poor decision because smart people wearing glasses is just a stereotype and has no real bearing on whether someone is smart or not.