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Cognitive biases: test your knowledge!

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Do you know what a cognitive bias is and how many there are to date? Are you aware that certain cognitive biases must be taken seriously in the teaching world? Can you tell a cognitive bias from a myth? Cognitive biases are perceptual distortions that can be said to be to our mind what optical illusions are to our visual system.

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Cognitive Bias: When Our Brain Plays Tricks On Us

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We are all quite familiar with the phenomenon of optical illusions, but less so with the phenomenon of cognitive biases. The underside of cognitive bias. Some 250 cognitive biases are generally classified into one of the following five categories: Bias… our perception is affected by… attentive or of attention.

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Cognitive Bias in Education: the Pygmalion Effect

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These erroneous judgments are called cognitive biases, and some 250 different ones are known to date. According to developmental psychologist and neuroscientist Olivier Houdé, the way to do this is to develop “cognitive resistance” or “learning to think against oneself” (see The 3 speeds of thought ). .”

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The Advantages and Potential of Virtual Reality: Test Your Knowledge!

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Learn more: Virtual Reality 101 8 benefits of virtual reality for training professionals 10 Advantages of Virtual Reality for Learning Virtual and Augmented Reality: 8 Uses in Universities Virtual Reality as support for future teachers 2. VR can even be used to complement the training of future teachers.

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Metacognition in 10 points

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For Flavell, metacognition “refers to one’s knowledge concerning one’s own cognitive processes or anything related to them. “Cognition” refers to all the processes related to our mental faculties: attention, reasoning, memorization, conceptualization, etc. Related articles: Metacognition in 3 Questions.

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3 tips for self-regulated learning

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In a previous article , we presented the main keys to understanding this concept and its field of study. Derived from Bandura’s social-cognitive theory, this feeling is a judgment of one’s ability to perform a task at a certain level. Strengthen your sense of personal effectiveness.

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4 Benefits of AI for Learners… and Teachers

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More important than the time devoted to study, it is the fact of being tested several times, alternating with study sessions, that optimizes memorization and respects our cognitive functions’ need for rest (Karpicke and Roediger, 2008).

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