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Master Cognitive Biases and Improve Your Critical Thinking by Udemy
Upgrade Your Mindware! Master Cognitive Biases and Learn New Strategies to Improve the Quality of Your Thinking
Course Highlights
- 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.
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum
3 Topics
Welcome to the Course!
Who is Kevin deLaplante?
What Will I Learn in This Course?
4 Topics
What is a Cognitive Bias?
"Biased" does NOT mean "Prejudiced" or "Bigoted"
An Example: The Gambler's Fallacy
The Most Important Discovery of Modern Psychology
2 Topics
A Central Aim of Critical Thinking
"Mindware": Tools for Smart Thinking
5 Topics
Why is Everyone Talking About Cognitive Biases?
Reason 1: Avoiding Disasters
Reason 2: Improving Performance
Reason 3: Promoting Social Justice
All of This is Just APPLIED CRITICAL THINKING
2 Topics
There Are Hundreds of Cognitive Biases
We'll Look at FOUR in Detail
5 Topics
What is Confirmation Bias?
Biased Memory and the Lunar Effect
Biased Search for Information (I): Interviews and Framing Effects
Biased Search for Information (II): How Questions Can Manipulate Memory
Biased Interpretation of Information: Mulder Scully and Giant Alien Spiders
5 Topics
We're Very Good at Seeing Patterns ... Maybe Too Good
We See Faces Everywhere: Why?
Cognitive Biases and Adaptive Shortcuts
Stairway to Heaven Britney Spears and Backmasking
Looking for Meaning in German Carpet Bombing Patterns
5 Topics
What is the Anchoring Effect?
How Much is This Jacket Really Worth?
The Basic Shortcut: "Anchor and Adjust"
Irrelevant Anchors: Judges Literally Roll Dice on Damages
How to Use Anchoring to Manipulate Public Opinion
3 Topics
What Is Hindsight Bias?
How Hindsight Bias is Demonstrated
Hindsight Bias 9-11 and Earthquake Prediction
4 Topics
Debiasing Strategies: Overview
What is Debiasing?
Debiasing the Decision-Maker
Debiasing the Environment
2 Topics
Five Reasons Why Businesses May Resist Debiasing
We Have a BLIND SPOT When It Comes to Our Own Biases
8 Topics
The General Problem: Narrow Thinking
(1) Consider the Opposite
(2) Make People Accountable
(3) PREMORTEM Analysis
(4) The Value of Checklists
(5-1) The Benefits and Risks of Group Decision-Making
(5-2) The Debiasing Effects of Diversity
(5-3) How to Get the Most Out of Brainstorming
2 Topics
What's Next?
Bonus Lecture: Other Courses I Teach and Services I Offer
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