Self-Serving bias is a cognitive process to maintain a favorable perception of oneself. We tend to associate our good outcomes to our actions - but bad outcomes we attribute it to external factors. Eg. I got a 90% is maths because I studied hard - but I got a 20% in english because my teacher hates me.
Published on Aug 06, 2021
Expected Value: Theoretical net positive or negative of a given event over time.
Published on Aug 06, 2021
Intuition in philosophy is "an indirect way to grasp knowledge and morality". You intuitively know if an action is right or wrong - even though you can't work out why.
Published on Aug 03, 2021
Epistemology means the theory of knowledge. Main questions in Epistemology are...
Published on Aug 03, 2021
Epistemology means the theory of knowledge or study of knowledge. Main questions in Epistemology are...
Published on Aug 03, 2021
There is a difference between knowing and believing...
Published on Aug 03, 2021
All behavior is to reduce uncertainty - uncertainty brings stress.
Published on Jul 29, 2021
When you can store a bunch of information in your working memory as one unit. Eg. 2,0,1,9 is four numbers - but 2019 is chunked into one recent year. You can hold more information if you can chunk it up. Education should give you lots of chunkable abstractions. Chunks can be handled better by System 1.
Published on Jul 28, 2021