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Examples Of Counterfactual Thinking
Availability Heuristic: Gives our brains the quick shortcut to the answer we need. We make decision based on what is readily available in our minds rather than examining all the alternatives.
Representative heuristic: Is when I am confronted with an experience and I need to make a judgment or a decision about that situation my brain automatically rely on my past experiences and mental representation to guide my judgement and decision.
Counterfactual Thinking: Is thoughts about past events, thoughts about what might have been.
During the months of June and July Houston experience floods all over the metro area. I was home watching the news about how most the city was flooded, and how the cars were getting stuck in the middle of the road. Later on the day I was supposed to attend school, when I recalled what I had just seeing and hear on the news, about cars stuck in the middle of the road, and immediately though about the possibility of my car getting stuck in the middle of the road. I decided to stay home. …show more content…
He was standing there with a lady and a boy about six years old. I rush to say hello and we started to talked about we haven’t seen each other in so many years, he introduced the lady as his wife, I did not let him finish and I bend down a bit and said and this must be your son, he looks just like when you were a kid, his eyes, hair, his facial expression everything reminds me of you as a kid. My cousin reply and said “his my step-son”. In this situation I rely on past experiences and my mental representation about my cousin as a child, I rush to judgment with embarrassing
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