Pschology Module 27: Thinking, Language and Intelligence The Availability Heuristic Essay

availability Heuristic A intellectual shortcut that relies on immediate examples that comes to mind. When you are trying to make a decision, a number of related events or situations might immediately startle to the forefront of your thoughts. As a result, you might judge that those events are more(prenominal) frequent and possible than others. You give greater trust to this information and hunt to overestimate the probability and wishlihood of similar things happening in the future. Examples later on seeing news reports slightly people losing their jobs, you might start to intrust that you are in danger of being laid-off. You start lying wake up in bed each night worrying that you are about to be fired. After seeing several television programs on chisel attacks, you start to think that such incidences are relatively common. When you go on vacation, you refuse to swim in the ocean because you believe the probability of a shark attack is high. After reading an article about drafting winners, you start to overestimate your own similarlihood of winning the jackpot. You start expenditure more money than you should each week on lottery tickets.Availability heuristic influences our decisionns and judgments by remembering something that shapes our impression to make these decisions and lead us astray in our judgments that makes information pop into our minds. Availability heuristic leads us to maintenance the wrong things and we shouldnt always fear everything.Four influences that kick in fear and cause us to ignore higher risks 1. We fear what our contagious history has prepared us to fear (Confinement and heights, and therefore flying)2. We fear what we cannot picture (We can control a car by driving just now not a plane) 3. We fear what is immediate (Teens are indifferent to roll of tobaccos toxicity because they live more for the present than the distant future) 4. We fear what is most readily available in memory (Availability Heuristic) (Scary, vivid images like 9/11 cause our judgments of risk, we remember andfear natural disasters like hurricanes tornados and earthquakes that kill people instantly)