Karen April 21‚ 2013 Psych. 1100 Psychology Analysis Paper #3 Cognitive Dissonance The Psychological story of decision making does not end however when the decision has been made. The act of making a decision can trigger a lot of other properties. According to psychologist Leon Festinger‚ whenever we choose to do something that conflicts with our prior beliefs‚ feelings‚ or values; a state of cognitive dissonance is created in us. (p. 244) A tension between what we think and what we do
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judgement is affected by cognitive biases‚ “a cognitive bias refers to systematic patterns of deviation from norm or rationality in judgement‚ whereby inferences about other people and situations may be drawn in an illogical fashion” (Wikipedia‚ 2016). In simpler terms cognitive biases are natural ways our brains work that causes distortions or errors in thought or judgement. There are multiple types of cognitive biases‚ three examples I have experienced are confirmation bias‚ representativeness heuristic
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Connie Zhang Media Bias Against Hilary Clinton in the Election of 2008 The election of 2008 was monumental in many respects‚ the most significant being the fact that there was a chance that the first woman or African American would become president of the United States. After Obama won the nomination‚ claims that the media had been negative and unfair to Clinton were examined. In earlier studies conducted by D’Alessio and Allen‚ it was concluded there were no significant biases in most forms of
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Reformulating News Media Bias: A New Theoretical and Methodological Approach By Peter Brinson Allegations of media bias are nothing new in the United States. Though conservatives have been the most vocal in recent years‚ liberals have also been known to argue that the news media systematically presents information in a way that privileges the opposition’s viewpoint. This debate has been carried out in the popular press as well‚ with each side struggling to provide the definitive proof that the
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A cognitive bias is described as the subconscious hindrances found in our own ways of thinking. An example of a cognitive bias is the "planning fallacy". Planning fallacy is when we are overly optimistic in the amount of time required to complete a task. I feel as if I run into this problem a lot in my own way of thinking. I am the type of person who likes to have a plan and to be organized‚ but in certain cases the time required for the completion of task longer than I anticipate. This underestimation
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2014 Media Bias Covering our World There are many types of media bias that we see daily; if we turn on our computers‚ read our newspapers‚ or even watch the news stations on television‚ you will see some sort of bias. The types of bias change from station to station and from town to town depending on their views and culture background. The types of bias raiding our media are bias by omission‚ bias by selection of sources‚ bias by story selection‚ bias by placement‚ bias by labeling‚ and bias by spin
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the election against Hillary Clinton. I switched the channel to Fox News and they were talking about the same thing except no remarks‚ only the information. This got me thinking about which news sources are bias. That’s when I stumbled across the website Project Veritas‚ it talked about the bias and corruption in major news sources‚ that was the information I needed to see‚ and you do too‚ stay tuned because this undercover news could finally expose the
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Cognitive Functioning PSY/475 April 22‚ 2013 Cognitive Functioning Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory *Componential *Metacomponents *Performance *Knowledge-acquisition Speaker Notes: Sternberg’s Triarchic theory was first introduced around 1985 and has been widely used since. Sternberg believed that that intelligence has three facets to help understand the human mind (Hogan‚ 2007). There are many different sub-divisions and then some of those have subparts to them as well. The first is componential
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serious. With this proliferation of news‚ it’s hard to know what is true from what is false‚ especially when there is bias in the media. Some people believe that media bias helps to understand different viewpoints of a situation‚ therefore leading to a more positive outcome‚ while other people believe that media bias poses larger problems and leads to situations where nobody benefits. Bias in the media has become a huge problem in today’s society and leads to many other problems like fake news‚
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The core argument presented is the possibility of a liberal media manipulating the American public and thus influencing them to vote in congruence with the ways of the Democratic political party. Thus far it is simple to see the media clearly holds a bias that is in favor of the liberal viewpoint. I believe the media should not hold an opinion because‚ it comes through in their coverage and thus influences some of the American public to vote in a way in which they would not have otherwise. Narratio:
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