Belief information affected by unconscious features of human psychology.
What is Cognitive Biases
100
Issues: This is just a question
what is an issue
100
A claim that is free from error
What is a Truth
200
Whether it is true or false is independent of whether people think it is true or false.
What is an Objective claim
200
An argument is made up of a premise and a _______
What is Conclusion
200
People will tend to overestimate their skills
What is the overconfidence effect
200
Cognitive Biases: the tendency to evaluate reasoning by how believable its conclusion seems.
What is belief bias
200
True or False: to understand a truth, one needs to evaluate that truth in a commonsensical way
What is true about truth
300
Whether it is true or false is not independent of whether people think it is true or false
What is a Subjective Claim
300
True or False(arguments): All arguments have a conclusion
what is True about arguments
300
"Those Nerds are never gonna get laid, we jocks on the other hand..." is an example
What is the In-group bias
300
Cognitive Biases: Unconsciously assigning a probability to a type of event on the basis of how often one thinks it may happen.
What is Availability Heuristic
300
True or False: A truth cannot be Subjective
What is True about a Truth
400
"Somebody stole our nifty concrete lawn duck!!" whether the lawn duck is "NIFTY" or not is an example.
What is a subjective question
400
True or False (arguments): Whether a passage contains an argument depends on how long it is
What is false about arguments
400
Volunteers were tasked with questioning another "volunteer" and dealing out increasingly intense shocks at every wrong answer.
What is the Stanley millgram Experiment
400
Cognitive Biases: General rules when it comes to probabilities.
What are heuristics
400
True or False (Knowledge): You can confidently claim you have knowledge on a particular issue if you haven't slept in 7 days
What is false about Knowledge
500
"What is right or wrong is in the eye of the beholder"
What is Moral subjectivism
500
Einstein used Mathematics and Physics as a premise to come to this conclusion
What is E=mc^2
500
"No true American wants their second amendment right taken away, become a republican!" is an example.
What is Negativity Bias
500
Cognitive Biases: the tendency to not appreciate that others' behavior is as much constrained by events and circumstances as our own
What is Fundamental attribution error
500
If you believe something is so, have an argument that is beyond a reasonable doubt that it is so, and have no reason to think you are mistaken, you can claim you know it is so.