Thursday, January 16, 2025

January 16, 2025

January 16, 2025

Definition of Intelligence:  Look it up.

Definition of Wisdom: Look it up.

What is the difference between wisdom and intelligence?

Circle: Who is the smartest person you know?

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: 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 

Activity: Heuristic's and how they turn into Mind Traps. 1. Cognitive Dissonance 2. Spotlight Effect. 3. The Anchoring effect 4. Halo Effect 5. Gamblers Fallacy 6. Confirmation Bias 7. The paradox of choice

Definitions and examples

Student Activity: M35: Problem-Solving Strategies 

Student Activity: M35: Fact or Falsehood? 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: Dice Games to Demonstrate Problem Solving 

Teacher Demonstration: M35: Confirmation Bias 


Student Activity: M35: Confirmation and Custody Decisions 


Teacher Demonstration: M35: Demonstrating Mental Set 


Teacher Demonstration: M35: The Representativeness Heuristic 


Teacher Demonstration: M35: The Base-Rate Fallacy 


Student Activity: M35: The Availability Heuristic 


Student Activity: M35: Belief Bias 


Student Activity: M35: Framing Decisions 


Student Activity: M35: Risk Averse Versus Loss Averse 


Problem Solving

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