GenPsych Course 2020, Thinking 6: Cognitive Biases
Channel: Randall O'Reilly
Date: 2020-11-12

Lecture 6 of 9 for Chapter 7: Thinking, Control, Intelligence
Principles of Psychology & Neuroscience Textbook: https://PrinciplesOfPsych.org

We discuss a set of cognitive biases that shape how people think, using heuristics or short-cut ways of thinking.  These include: availability, representativeness, and confirmation biases, which have broad real-world impacts on how people behave, in sub-optimal ways.