Confirmation Bias

How can Cognitive Bias be dangerous or damaging?

• It can lead you to make false conclusions.

• It can cause you to do poorly on tests.

• It can give you tension headaches.

Confirmation Bias is a form of Cognitive Bias that causes us to seek out information that we know or believe to be true, thereby ignoring or minimizing facts that threaten what we believe. What part of the brain is active when we are experiencing Confirmation Bias?

• Dorsolateral pre-frontal cortex: Reasoning

• Parietal lobe: Language

• Orbital Frontal Cortex: Emotion

List the three steps you can take to combat Cognitive Bias:

What are the three steps you can follow to combat Cognitive Bias?

• Recognize, Consider, Evaluate

• Consider, Evaluate, Argue

• Recognize, Consider, Research

• Research, Evaluate, Argue

What is Cognitive Bias?

• When we think the way we do about a subject because it's what we hear from a teacher or parent.

• A limitation in our thinking that can cause flaws in our judgment.

• A limitation in our imagination that causes us only to see our own side of an issue.