Explain In Your Own Words What The Continued Influence Effect Is
1. Most people think that advertising works in general, but that it doesn’t not work on them in particular. “ It works on most people, but it doesn’t work on me?”
What biases might be behind such a belief?
This could be related to hindsight bias
2. Explain in your own words, what the continued influence effect is. Give an example, different from the ones used in the book
The continued influence effect refers to the way false claims enter someone’s head and continue to influence their beliefs even after they have been corrected.
My friend told me that my brother’s girlfriend was cheating on him, so I was inclined to believe that she was. Two days later, my friend told me she mistaken for someone else’s girlfriend. Even though she told …show more content…
The first two times that I met him, he spoke very rudely to the employees. A week later, I was alone with the physiotherapist and was really nice to me but I still think he is a hostile person.
4. ‘cold reading’ is when someone tries to convince an audience that they have some kind of psychic power by making a lot of vague ended predictions what role might biases play in leading audience members to believe that the “psychic” of special power
Biases play a major role in leading audience members to believe that the “psychic” of special power. This is an example of confirmation bias most specifically self-fulfilling prophecy. This is happens when ones expectations about another person eventually lead the other person to behave in ways that confirm these expectations. So in the example, the psychic will predict the person’s future with vague statement, the person will try to connect to certain things that the psychic says. Then, subconsciously the person will act in a certain way to make these predictions come true.
5. Why is it a good idea to see it as a red flag whenever we find ourselves thinking “surely this person would not be saying something demonstrably false in such a public
What biases might be behind such a belief?
This could be related to hindsight bias
2. Explain in your own words, what the continued influence effect is. Give an example, different from the ones used in the book
The continued influence effect refers to the way false claims enter someone’s head and continue to influence their beliefs even after they have been corrected.
My friend told me that my brother’s girlfriend was cheating on him, so I was inclined to believe that she was. Two days later, my friend told me she mistaken for someone else’s girlfriend. Even though she told …show more content…
The first two times that I met him, he spoke very rudely to the employees. A week later, I was alone with the physiotherapist and was really nice to me but I still think he is a hostile person.
4. ‘cold reading’ is when someone tries to convince an audience that they have some kind of psychic power by making a lot of vague ended predictions what role might biases play in leading audience members to believe that the “psychic” of special power
Biases play a major role in leading audience members to believe that the “psychic” of special power. This is an example of confirmation bias most specifically self-fulfilling prophecy. This is happens when ones expectations about another person eventually lead the other person to behave in ways that confirm these expectations. So in the example, the psychic will predict the person’s future with vague statement, the person will try to connect to certain things that the psychic says. Then, subconsciously the person will act in a certain way to make these predictions come true.
5. Why is it a good idea to see it as a red flag whenever we find ourselves thinking “surely this person would not be saying something demonstrably false in such a public