Open House: AP Psychology

​May 16, 2025 @12:00pm

Open Ended

Fun Fact Trivia: In miles, how fare can you write with a standard pencil before running out of graphite?

Open Ended

Fun Fact Trivia: What percent of a twinkie is air?

Critical Thinking

•Critical Thinking –thinking that does not blindly accept arguments and conclusions.  Rather, it examines assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence, and assesses conclusions.  “Smart thinking”

How do hindsight bias, overconfidence, and the tendency to perceive order in random events illustrate why science based answers are more valid than those based on 'common' sense?

Hindsight bias, overconfidence and our eagerness to perceive patterns in random events, leads us to overestimate the weight of 'common' sense thinking.
Scientific inquiry can help us overcome such biases and short comings.

Multiple Choice

When people have the tendency to think they know more than they do

• Intuition
• Hindsight bias
• Overconfidence
• Perceiving order in random events