Title: Cognitive Biases
Instructor: Dr. Mark Olson, LMT
Online Format: Video + Live/Interactive
Dates: Coming Soon
Description: This class examines how cognitive biases affect our cognitive decision making processes as well as our political, interpersonal, and therapeutic relationships. Participants will learn to identify various cognitive biases and how to minimize their effects in oneself and others. This course has two components: a video lecture series followed by a webinar series, each offered separately with the lecture series as a prerequisite for the webinar. Some cognitive biases to be explored include:
- Confirmation Bias
- Backfire Effect
- Dunning-Kruger Effect
- Bias Blind Spot
- Loss Aversion
- Mere Exposure Effect
- Outgroup Homogeneity Bias and Trait Ascription Bias
- Impact Bias
- Regression Toward the Mean
- Just-world Phenomenon
- Implicit Bias
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Title: Cognitive Fallacies
Instructor: Dr. Mark Olson, LMT
Online Format: Video + Live/Interactive
Dates: Coming Soon
Description: This class examines how cognitive fallacies affect our cognitive decision making processes as well as our political, interpersonal, and therapeutic relationships. Participants will learn to identify various cognitive fallacies and how to minimize their effects in oneself and others. This course has two components: a video lecture series followed by a webinar series, each offered separately with the lecture series as a prerequisite for the webinar. Some cognitive biases to be explored include:
- Ad hominem
- Straw Man
- False Cause
- Texas Sharpshooter
- Middle Ground
- Burden of Proof
- Appeal to Nature
- Argument by Gibberish
- Equivocation
- Anecdote