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PSY-210
Competence
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Are self-assessments about learning and expertise usually accurate? | They tend not to be accurate. People who score high tend to predict their scores to be lower than they actually are, and those who score lower tend to predict their scores to be higher than they actually are. |
| Explain the double curse of the incompetent | The skills used to produce logical arguments are the same skills necessary to recognize when a logical argument has been made. if people lack skills to produce right answers they're also cursed w/ an inability to know when answers are right or wrong. |
| What is the incompetence paradox? | If poor performers had the skills needed to distinguish accuracy from error, they would then have the skills needed to avoid poor performance in the first place. They would no longer be incompetent. |
| Describe the curse of the competent | Mistakes are made when evaluations of self are made relative to peers. Competent people tend to over-estimate peers' mastery. |
| Factors of assessing self-performance | We tend to favor a top-down approach to assessing performance. Stereotypes can have an effect on self-performance |
| Brief explanation of cognitive psychology | Study of how we acquire, store, and use information. Limited capacity and far from perfect. Predictable mistakes |
| What is the self-serving bias? | The tendency to perceive oneself favorably. Most people see themselves as better than average. Cognitive processes conspire to protect our self-esteem |
| How do we usually explain events? | We tend to attribute our successes to ability and failures to external factors. Situations that combine skill and chance are especially prone. |
| Explain what false consensus is | A cognitive bias where a person tends to overestimate how much other people agree with them. There is a tendency for ppl to assume their own beliefs, opinions, preferences, values & habits are normal and everyone else thinks the same. |
| Explain what false uniqueness is | The tendency to underestimate the commonality of one's desirable behaviors and successes |
| What are some mental health implications of incompetence? | Narcissism and Depression |
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