Why We Make Mistakes
Joseph T. Hallinan
Chapter 2: We All Search for Meaning: Hallinan discusses how we are able to better remember things when they have a meaning for us, than meaningless things. He gives various examples of such things as remember the features of a penny, remembering faces better than names, being able to remember random things by giving them some kind of meaning, and how we can mistakenly recognize a face by things that are not enough and easily confused.
Chapter 3: We Connect the Dots: In this chapter, Hallinan discusses examples that relate how individuals make choices based on "invisible" factors. For example making judgments of people based on pictures only, how a woman's physiology affects men reactions, and how students feel about chaining answers in tests (something contrary to what researchers have discovered).
Discussion: Even though these two chapters discuss different ideas, they are both very similar. They both provide concepts and factors that affect individual's choices, factors that we cannot see. In the first chapter, the meaning we give to things is one of the most efficient things to remember them. In the second, things that we do or believe unconsciously, affect our acts. On the discussion about changing answers on a test, I believe we are more aware of those questions we go from right to wrong because of our desire or idea that we could have done better than we did if we wouldn't of change the answer.
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