Today we looked at some of the reasons why some people make illusions of causality - thinking coincidences are causally linked, or thinking unrelated events are linked to each other. One reason is that it allows people to feel in control of an unpredictable world, another is that it could be adaptive, another is that believers are lower in academic ability and another is that believers are just not good at making probability judgements. Furthermore, don't forget that human memory is notoriously unreliable and that some of the illusions of causality may just be down to a dodgy memory.
Today's ppt is here. Make sure you answer the exam questions at the end - all mark schemes on the AQA website, or see me if you are having trouble locating them.
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