Inf1CG Week 5: Categories, Decision Making, Biases
Tasks
Your major tasks and deadlines this week are:
- Do Quiz 2, which will is due on 12 February at 12:00 noon.
- Attend lectures 13, 14, and 15.
- Attend your tutorial group. Make sure to first attempt the Questions for Tutorial 4 on your own.
- Attend one of the drop-in labs.
- Read the readings for this week.
- Work on Assignment 1, which is due on 28 February 2024
- Start preparing for Tutorial 5, which will happen next week.
- Next week is flexible learning week! No lectures, tutorials, or lab. It’s a great opportunity to catch up with the reading for the course!
Lectures
| No | Date | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 13 | 13 Feb | Categories |
| 14 | 15 Feb | Judgement and Decision Making |
| 15 | 16 Feb | Biases in Human Decision Making |
All lectures will be livestreamed and recorded on Echo Video. You may have to log on through Learn before this link works.
Readings
The links below direct you to the University Library or to Piazza. You will need to log on to access the full text.
Readings come in two flavours: required and recommended.
| Harley 2014 | The Psychology of Language, Chapter 11, pp319-336 | Required |
| Tversky & Kahneman 1981 | The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice | Required |
| Kahneman 2011* | Thinking, Fast and Slow | Optional |
*This books is listed here as possible additional reading for students who are fascinated by the content of lectures 14 and 15. It provides a lot more detail, presented for a general audience. Focus on parts 2 and 4.
Assignments
To access the assignments, please login in through Learn, and then go the link “Notable LTI 1.2”.
Quizzes
To access the quizzes, please login in through Learn, and then go the link “Gradescope”.
Tutorials
Please attempt to answer the Questions for Tutorial 4. These will be discussed in the tutorial sessions this week.
Labs
Please attend one of the drop-in lab sessions this week. The labs are designed to help with the assignments, and you can ask the lab demonstrator if anything is unclear with Assignment 1.
To access the lab notebooks, please login in through Learn, and then go the link “Notable LTI 1.2”.
