ATA1

The first assignment that was completed in Social Psychology was the learning of Heuristics. Heuristics are very helpful when it comes to thinking process, it allows individuals to problem solve efficiently without over-thinking. I learned that there was a total of three heuristics, which included: availability, representativeness, and anchoring/adjustment. Each of these heuristics has one common goal, to complete the problem and finalize the solution at hand. But as much as heuristics can be a very helpful resource, it can also lead to much biases and stereotypes. At my bank job, I applied the ” Adjustment Heuristic”. A situation came about when their was a miscommunication of an email from a member and one the branch representatives. Instead of the email being escalated, in turn, I managed to step into an unknown situation and take control. The member ended up with please member service and the branch representative was not called out by the management team. I choose the above image to go with my ATA1 because it reflects the biases in heuristics within society and it’s hilarious ! Now we all know that “Big Foot” or the “Yeti ” is not real, but this fable or imagination of these creatures eating humans is a stereotype. If these creatures did exist, they could be vegan !