The irreducible epistemic atoms underlying the curriculum. 2,888 atoms across 3 types and 2 molecules
The amygdala evaluates emotional significance of stimuli before conscious awareness, and humans systematically use these pre-conscious emotional evaluations as heuristic substitutes for complex cognitive judgments, producing systematic distortions in probability and severity assessments.
People judge frequency and probability based on the subjective ease of mentally retrieving examples rather than the content count of retrieved instances, using retrieval fluency as a proxy for actual frequency in the world.