Intuitive System
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Reason and Intuition
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2020
The human brain processes information for decision-making using one of two routes: an intuitive system and a rational system (Epstein, 1994; popularized by Kahneman, 2011 as System 1 and System 2, respectively). The intuitive system is quick, impulsive, and operates with minimal effort, relying on emotions or habits to provide cues for what to do next, while the rational system is logical, analytical, deliberate, and methodical. Research in neuropsychology suggests that the brain can only use...
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The Availability Heuristic
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2020
A heuristic is a general problem-solving framework (Tversky & Kahneman, 1974). You can think of these as mental shortcuts that are used to solve problems. Different types of heuristics are used in different types of situations, and the impulse to use a heuristic occurs when one of five conditions is met (Pratkanis, 1989): When one is faced with too much information When the time to make a decision is limited When the decision to be made is unimportant When there is access to very...
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The Mouse Round-window Approach for Ototoxic Agent Delivery: A Rapid and Reliable Technique for Inducing Cochlear Cell Degeneration
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2015
Various methods exist for introducing ototoxic agents to the cochleae of animal models. Presented is a surgical protocol for delivery of ototoxic agents to the round window niche. The procedure is reliable, creates targeted intra-cochlear lesions, and avoids mechanical damage to the microarchitecture. Examination of cochlear self-repair/regeneration is possible.
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Cause and Effect
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2020
While variables are sometimes correlated because one does cause the other, it could also be that some other factor, a confounding variable, is actually causing the systematic movement in our variables of interest. For instance, as sales in ice cream increase, so does the overall rate of crime. Is it possible that indulging in your favorite flavor of ice cream could send you on a crime spree? Or, after committing crime do you think you might decide to treat yourself to a cone? There is no...
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Bystander Effect
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2020
The discussion of bullying highlights the problem of witnesses not intervening to help a victim. This is a common occurrence, as the following well-publicized event demonstrates. In 1964, in Queens, New York, a 19-year-old woman named Kitty Genovese was attacked by a person with a knife near the back entrance to her apartment building and again in the hallway inside her apartment building. When the attack occurred, she screamed for help numerous times and eventually died from her stab wounds.
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Pattern recognition allows the intuitive system to connect a current situation with accumulated experience and associations, then reach a judgment without evaluating every available detail. This economy of processing explains why the system can respond efficiently under pressure. It also means that a misleading resemblance or inappropriate prior association can steer judgment in the wrong direction.
Emotional cues provide rapid signals that influence how a person interprets a situation before extended analysis occurs. In psychological research, this helps account for immediate impressions and risk perception, because feelings can shape the apparent significance of people or events. The same speed that makes such cues useful can also contribute to predictable bias.
Reliance on the intuitive system is especially consequential when circumstances are unfamiliar or misleading. In those settings, a familiar shortcut may not fit the available information, increasing the possibility of cognitive bias. By contrast, accumulated experience can make rapid recognition more useful, linking the quality of intuition to how well prior associations match the current situation.
Studying the intuitive system gives psychologists a framework for examining how people form immediate impressions, judge social situations, perceive risk, and make everyday choices. These areas show how rapid processing operates across personal and interpersonal decisions. They also allow researchers to consider both sides of intuitive judgment: efficient responses under constraint and predictable errors caused by misleading conditions.
Risk perception can be shaped by rapid pattern recognition, heuristics, and emotional cues rather than by deliberate review of all available information. This makes the system relevant to everyday choices, particularly when decisions must be made with limited time or incomplete information. It also helps explain why a situation may prompt a rapid response that later proves biased.
In psychology, the intuitive system is relevant to social judgments because it can generate immediate impressions of other people with little conscious effort. Researchers can use this perspective to connect rapid judgments with the heuristics and associations producing them, while also asking when those judgments remain adaptive and when they reflect predictable cognitive biases.