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Lecture 13: Thinking

Uses problems and puzzles to examine functional fixedness, heuristics, anchoring and framing, with a brief discussion of frontal-lobe contributions.

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A practical starting point for a reasoning-bias guide: compare an answer with the task’s assumptions before naming a supposed bias.

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