Can You Beat Cognitive Bias?

Can You Beat Cognitive Bias?

Lesson aims:

• Define and analyze five different types of cognitive bias

• Evaluate and reflect on ways to recognize and respond to five types of bias.

Warm-up

• Why is it so hard to change someone's mind? why is it even harder to persuade ourselves that we are doing something wrong ?

• Why is it even harder to persuade ourselves that we are doing something wrong ?

What is a cognitive bias?

A cognitive bias is a systematic error in thinking that occurs when people are processing and interpreting information in the world around them and affects the decisions and judgments that they make.

Answer the questions

• Are there any biases you are prone to?

• Can you give any examples ?

Watch the video and answer the questions

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Answer the questions

• What do people do when experiencing confirmation bias? What don’t they do?

• Does confirmation bias rely more on the reasoning part of your brain or the emotional part?

• Is there anything good about confirmation bias?

• Why is it important to research the facts of your own side AND the other side to fight confirmation bias?