Master Cognitive Biases and Improve Your Critical Thinking
Master Cognitive Biases and Improve Your Critical Thinking, available at $69.99, has an average rating of 4.55, with 50 lectures, based on 28238 reviews, and has 69205 subscribers.
You will learn about Understand what cognitive biases are and why they're so important for critical thinking. Understand the concept of "mindware" as a component of improving critical thinking and reasoning. Understand how ignoring cognitive biases can open the door to disastrous decisions, reduced performance and social injustice. Understand why many businesses and industries are offering cognitive bias training to their managers and employees. Be able to describe several important cognitive biases — such as confirmation bias, pattern-seeking, anchoring, and hindsight bias — and give examples that illustrate how they operate. Understand what "debiasing" is, and be able to describe several effective strategies for reducing the harmful effects of cognitive biases. Explain why many businesses and organizations resist implementing debiasing strategies. This course is ideal for individuals who are Anyone who is interested in improving their critical thinking skills. or Anyone who wants to learn about what psychology has taught us about human judgment and decision-making over the past forty years. or Anyone working in business or other organizations who wants to improve the quality of thinking and decision-making in their organization. It is particularly useful for Anyone who is interested in improving their critical thinking skills. or Anyone who wants to learn about what psychology has taught us about human judgment and decision-making over the past forty years. or Anyone working in business or other organizations who wants to improve the quality of thinking and decision-making in their organization.
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Title: Master Cognitive Biases and Improve Your Critical Thinking
Price: $69.99
Average Rating: 4.55
Number of Lectures: 50
Number of Published Lectures: 50
Number of Curriculum Items: 50
Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 50
Original Price: $84.99
Quality Status: approved
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What You Will Learn
- Understand what cognitive biases are and why they're so important for critical thinking.
- Understand the concept of "mindware" as a component of improving critical thinking and reasoning.
- Understand how ignoring cognitive biases can open the door to disastrous decisions, reduced performance and social injustice.
- Understand why many businesses and industries are offering cognitive bias training to their managers and employees.
- Be able to describe several important cognitive biases — such as confirmation bias, pattern-seeking, anchoring, and hindsight bias — and give examples that illustrate how they operate.
- Understand what "debiasing" is, and be able to describe several effective strategies for reducing the harmful effects of cognitive biases.
- Explain why many businesses and organizations resist implementing debiasing strategies.
Who Should Attend
- Anyone who is interested in improving their critical thinking skills.
- Anyone who wants to learn about what psychology has taught us about human judgment and decision-making over the past forty years.
- Anyone working in business or other organizations who wants to improve the quality of thinking and decision-making in their organization.
Target Audiences
- Anyone who is interested in improving their critical thinking skills.
- Anyone who wants to learn about what psychology has taught us about human judgment and decision-making over the past forty years.
- Anyone working in business or other organizations who wants to improve the quality of thinking and decision-making in their organization.
Critical thinking is one of the most important skills anyone can learn. Let philosopher Kevin deLaplante introduce you to the cutting edge of critical thinking education, with this entertaining and enlightening introduction to cognitive biases and their importance for critical thinking.
Interest in Cognitive Bias Training Has Exploded
Books and articles on the impact of cognitive biases in business, finance, management, teaching, science, politics, and many other fields, have exploded in popularity in recent years. Many industries have started offering cognitive bias training to management and workers, and the trend is growing.
Benefits of Understanding and Mastering Cognitive Biases
Cognitive biases undermine critical thinking by making us vulnerable to faulty beliefs and bad decisions. Cognitive bias training is motivated by a desire to avoid disasters, improve performance, and promote social justice.
The good news is that there are proven strategies for neutralizing or minimizing the negative effects of cognitive biases. These “debiasing” techniques can be surprisingly simple and effective.
What You Will Learn in This Course
This course will get you up to speed on what cognitive biases are, why they’re important for critical thinking, why cognitive bias training has become popular, and what sorts of “debiasing” techniques have been shown to be effective in improving the quality of thinking and decision-making.
Check out the free preview videos in the “Getting Started” section for a full breakdown of the topics covered in the course, and how the course is organized!
Course Curriculum
Chapter 1: Getting Started
Lecture 1: Welcome to the Course!
Lecture 2: Who is Kevin deLaplante?
Lecture 3: What Will I Learn in This Course?
Chapter 2: What is a Cognitive Bias?
Lecture 1: What is a Cognitive Bias?
Lecture 2: "Biased" does NOT mean "Prejudiced" or "Bigoted"
Lecture 3: An Example: The Gambler's Fallacy
Lecture 4: The Most Important Discovery of Modern Psychology
Chapter 3: Cognitive Biases and Their Importance for Critical Thinking
Lecture 1: A Central Aim of Critical Thinking
Lecture 2: "Mindware": Tools for Smart Thinking
Chapter 4: Why Are So Many Industries Offering Cognitive Bias Training To Their Employees?
Lecture 1: Why is Everyone Talking About Cognitive Biases?
Lecture 2: Reason 1: Avoiding Disasters
Lecture 3: Reason 2: Improving Performance
Lecture 4: Reason 3: Promoting Social Justice
Lecture 5: All of This is Just APPLIED CRITICAL THINKING
Chapter 5: A Gentle Introduction to Cognitive Biases
Lecture 1: There Are Hundreds of Cognitive Biases
Lecture 2: We'll Look at FOUR in Detail
Chapter 6: (1) Confirmation Bias
Lecture 1: What is Confirmation Bias?
Lecture 2: Biased Memory and the Lunar Effect
Lecture 3: Biased Search for Information (I): Interviews and Framing Effects
Lecture 4: Biased Search for Information (II): How Questions Can Manipulate Memory
Lecture 5: Biased Interpretation of Information: Mulder, Scully and Giant Alien Spiders
Chapter 7: (2) Pattern Seeking
Lecture 1: We're Very Good at Seeing Patterns … Maybe Too Good
Lecture 2: We See Faces Everywhere: Why?
Lecture 3: Cognitive Biases and Adaptive Shortcuts
Lecture 4: Stairway to Heaven, Britney Spears, and Backmasking
Lecture 5: Looking for Meaning in German Carpet Bombing Patterns
Chapter 8: (3) The Anchoring Effect
Lecture 1: What is the Anchoring Effect?
Lecture 2: How Much is This Jacket Really Worth?
Lecture 3: The Basic Shortcut: "Anchor and Adjust"
Lecture 4: Irrelevant Anchors: Judges Literally Roll Dice on Damages
Lecture 5: How to Use Anchoring to Manipulate Public Opinion
Chapter 9: (4) Hindsight Bias
Lecture 1: What Is Hindsight Bias?
Lecture 2: How Hindsight Bias is Demonstrated
Lecture 3: Hindsight Bias, 9-11 and Earthquake Prediction
Chapter 10: Introduction to Debiasing Strategies
Lecture 1: Debiasing Strategies: Overview
Lecture 2: What is Debiasing?
Lecture 3: Debiasing the Decision-Maker
Lecture 4: Debiasing the Environment
Chapter 11: Why Businesses Often Resist Debiasing
Lecture 1: Five Reasons Why Businesses May Resist Debiasing
Lecture 2: We Have a BLIND SPOT When It Comes to Our Own Biases
Chapter 12: Debiasing Strategies that Work
Lecture 1: The General Problem: Narrow Thinking
Lecture 2: (1) Consider the Opposite
Lecture 3: (2) Make People Accountable
Lecture 4: (3) PREMORTEM Analysis
Lecture 5: (4) The Value of Checklists
Lecture 6: (5-1) The Benefits and Risks of Group Decision-Making
Lecture 7: (5-2) The Debiasing Effects of Diversity
Lecture 8: (5-3) How to Get the Most Out of Brainstorming
Chapter 13: Wrapping Up
Lecture 1: What's Next?
Lecture 2: Bonus Lecture: Other Courses I Teach and Services I Offer
Instructors
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Kevin deLaplante
PhD, Philosopher, Founder of the Critical Thinker Academy
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- 4 stars: 10638 votes
- 5 stars: 14304 votes
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