Monday March 7, 2022

Circle: Every year our top students leave OHCHS and head off to college.  A lot go into nursing.  Why don't they go on to be doctors?

Link below has all the learning targets for unit on Cognition.  It also contains a list of vocabulary words.  The vocabulary list should not be considered exhaustive as there my be other words in the units you should know. Learning Targets and Vocabulary

Activity: Forgetting- Who took my computer?  Encoding failure.. Why did we do this?

Discuss: How do we solve problems and what gets in the way?

Your activity is to look up the definitions of each of these concepts at your table.(Confirmation Bias, Mental Set, Representative Heuristic, Base-Rate Fallacy and the Availability Heuristic)  You will have 10 minutes to come up with a definition in your own words and an example from someone at your table that explains these concepts at work(example-when you know you had a confirmation bias about something).  These explanations and examples should be made into your notecards.  You will be presenting these to the class.  You will also be voting on best definitions and examples

Activity: Confirmation Bias 35-3

Activity: Demonstrating Mental Set

Activity: Representative Heuristic

Activity: Base-Rate Fallacy

Activity: The Availability Heuristic