First Day

Question 1

Critical Thinking

Answer 1

carefully, deliberately deciding whether to accept, reject, or suspend judgement about a claim, and evaluating our degree of confidence in that decision.

Question 2

Descriptive Approach

Answer 2

describing the way people reason, psychology, econ. What types of reasoning are good/bad.

Question 3

Prescriptive Approach

Answer 3

how people should reason, branch of philosophy and logic

Question 4

Cognitive Biases

Answer 4

anything we are systematically prone to.
2 ways to avoid:
1. Switch to system 2
2. Retrain your intuition- develop expertise to where system 1 becomes more reliable

Question 5

Intelligence

Answer 5

computation, memory, and task switching

Question 6

Rationality

Answer 6

less willing to be satisfied, more aware, less subject to cognitive biases, and self control

Question 7

Belief Preservation

Answer 7

Tendency to use evidence to support our beliefs and avoid evidence that contradicts beliefs.
When presented with evidence we sort out the good or bad. Clinging to beliefs in the face of overwhelming evidence.

Question 8

Countering Belief Preservation

Answer 8

1. Separate yourself from the issue- don’t let your opinions blind you.
2. Humility
3. Look at Evidences from the other side

Question 9

initiative

Answer 9

talents, skills are innate and unchangeable- if held mindset on intelligence it leads to worse performance

Question 10

Incremental view

Answer 10

talents and intelligence is fluid, malleable, and responsive to training.

Question 11

essentialist view

Answer 11

members of a particular view or essence this is the same an individuals ability can be predicted based on group membership
ex. Asian Math Example.