FOR MY BENEFIT *Concepts- similar groupings *Prototype- mental concepts of things or the best fit idea of something *Algorithms- a way to solve a problem that grantees a solution *Huristic- problem solving rule of thumb that may result in a faster result but more errors *Confirmation bias- searching for researching or ideas that confirm ones prior beliefs *Availability Heuristic- a mental shortcut that come to mind when considering an event or object
When I was little, my mind was blown when I found out adults can get the hiccups. I didn't think they COULDN'T, I just hadn't thought about it before. A different example is when I realized fire hydrants hydrate fires.
Quick observation, has anyone else noticed that Hank is doing an incredible job with Crash Course Psychology?! I'm a big history fan, but I really do look forward to these psychology lectures. His delivery and tone is perfect for this topic.
Fungi have solved the problem of breaking down complex organic matter on a massive scale, necessary for the turn-over of nutrients and other molecules in ecological cycles we've depended on. Fungi also vitally assist many plants (a large majority of those we've studied) uptake of essential nutrients in root networks, in a mutualistic symbioses by fungi called mycorrhiza. It's these fungi that allowed plants to evolve from being ocean-bound to land 600 million years ago. Humans wouldn't exists without fungi. I'd say they've tried plenty. By comparison we're the lazy, careless newcomers screwing things up for everybody. :)
I spent several minutes on that word problem, only when he gave the answer realizing that I'm not supposed to come up with a word to combine with the other three all at once and create a compound word made up of four smaller words, I'm supposed to come up with a word that can be combined with each of the other three to create three different compound words with two words each.
"If we're mindful of capacity error, and if we honor our ingenuity and intellect, I think our ability to solve any problem is nearly infinite." I do totally agree.
we use concepts, prototypes and mental sets to think and communicate. this forms the base of cognition. every individual solves problems in different ways. most popular methods are trial and error, algorithms and heuristics. fixation, the availability heuristic, fear, overconfidence, and belief perseverance. we should always be open to other perspectives and new ideas
4:42 That example of looking for a family sized sriracha was oddly specific (Hank's exclamation of the dumbness of the store employees also seemed like it was coming from his heart) Are you alright hank?😂😂
That's not what, "I think, therefore I am" means. Because we have reason to doubt the accuracy of any/all perception, the only thing we can be sure of is that we are things that think (even if everything is wrong). That was the temporary, existential conclusion of Descartes' doubt.
Yeah, it's often misunderstood. It is more readily intelligible as something SEEMS to be happening and even if everything else is an illusion, that aspect of seeming is the only thing one can be entirely sure about. I experience things, I know that for sure. As for everything else, I can't be absolutely certain.
Not too much new information here, but I gotta give you an A+ for presentation. Both of you Green brothers are great at conveying a lot of information in a few minutes. Kudos to everyone involved in these productions.
Cognitive psychology is the scientific investigation of the human condition, that is, all our mental abilities- perceiving, remembering, learning, thinking and reasoning. 'Cognition' comes from 'cognoscere' which the latin word for 'to know'. Cognitive psychology studies how people acquire and apply knowledge or information. It is closely related to high interdisciplinary science and influenced by AI, computer science, philosophy, anthropology, linguistics, biology, physics and neuroscience.
you may not be able to outright refute it but you can call it into question by demanding a coherent definition of "I", including that it is to be defined by the characteristics of "thinking"(process), "am"(status of being) and continuation of existing (due to the linking of status and process) playing wannabe philosopher is fun XD
DeHerg Questions like this are why I went with a practical science degree. "It depends on what your definition of is, is." "No it doesn't. Is is is, now go away while I make things explode."
Eric Taysom well my imput wasn´t soley a play on words and definitions but rather a hint to a topic of practical science, in this case neuroscience. Consciousness is an emergent property of the process of "thinking" ie alot on nonconscious neurons exchanging information. The structure of this kollective of neurons(ie the brain) changes due to this process. So how can you say "you are because you think" when the very thing that is thinking in the beginning of that process is structurally different to the object at the end?
The little video game version of Hank getting excited over finding the Sriacha was absolutely adorable. I live for the Crash Course animations. They're so cute!
***** you know what? fuck off. Im not english, perfect grammar isn't always guaranteed, and i will slip back into norwegian sentence structure sometimes, but don't fucking patronize me whilst saying the internet has made communication more difficult, because thats bullshit. My english wouldn't be this good if it weren't for the internet.
My AP psychology exam is tomorrow and I haven't studied at all. I made 3 different study schedules as time went by, but I can't get myself to study. I can't even keep my attention on this video. I'm gonna do horrible, but I think i'm at the point in my senior year where I just don't care.
Study without worrying about the proof, for they will never represent the true proof of life. Without worrying I think things will flow naturally. I hope everything goes well, hug !!
I just want to thank you for making such entertaining, high quality, informative videos. I have watched you and your brothers videos for years and always enjoy them. Please keep posting
So glad to see this as part of my nursing behavioural classes workshop activites, with focus on cognitive bias! Thanks for the engaging cognition crash course Hank!
Hey Hank! I absolutely love your "Crash Course' channel and use it as primary source for doing my homework for different subjects. I am a visual learner so books rarely make sense to me but I love the fact that I can use your channel to learn everything I need to know in half the time. I can go on and on to tell you how thankful I am to you and your team to think of this concepts and help thousands of visual learners to learn fast and fully understand information through graphics. I have watched every single video of 'Crash Course History' and have successfully completed my CSET (California Subject Examination for Teachers) Teaching Credential History exam without touching a course book and I am doing the same for my next exam. While I was watching this video, a thought crossed my mind is that have you thought of having your work broadcast on 'History Channel"? Along with million others, I religiously watch history channel. I thought, it would be great to watch your work as Tv series on 'History Channel'. Anyways, thank you, your brother and 'Crash Course' team for working hard for us (students) and making our lives easier and making homework fun again. Best wishes, Sunshine:)
because of the fast pace of the video which is totally understandable since it's a crash course, I would love to see the content of the video in text formats like an article or a consolidated book of ideas
I'm offended by the trash-talk on Flat-earthers in this episode. I'll have you know, the Flat Earth Society has members ALL around the globe. I should know, I'm a card-carrying member.
***** Dude. A joke. "Flat earth society" "Around the globe". I was making a joke, clearly, because a flat-earth believer would not believe the earth has a globe. But thanks for the paragraph.
A female being a doctor does not make sense, because the word doctor (which is Latin for "teacher") is grammatically masculine. A woman could certainly be a _doctrix_, the grammatically feminine equivalent (which also happens to sound much cooler).
Caleb Mohr The plural of _doctrix_ is _doctrices_, not _doctrixes_. It is a pretty standard 3rd declension feminine word, declined the same way as _matrix_ or _dominatrix_. Of course, the plural of _doctor_ should be _doctores_ rather than _doctors_ too.
i am counselor for onco patients... this episode has helped to help the patients and the caregivers the HOPE to cope up with the illness, treatment and the changes happening during the various stages of treatment. especially in coping with the emotions. thanks for the information. god bless u.
I've been thinking on heavy topics for the past few weeks and stumbled on crash course for entertainment and you guys TALKED ABOUT THESE HEAVY TOPICS! Awesome!
Thank you Hank, on point and all info and titles is on par with my 1st year psychology studies. you are a brilliant speaker and I find it very easy to listen and pay attention throughout, Keep it up!!
Availability Heuristic is what my friend is easily susceptible to, he wins once and tells everyone he knows to play and he plays more 10-fold thinking the same will happen again.
My philosophy professor says that while most concepts are divergent the concept of cars is convergent. As time goes on the design of cars become increasingly closer to the car archetype.
I read Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman last month. I highly recommend it for anyone wanting to understand why it is that heuristics are so important and when and why they can fail.
I actually saw that picture in the thumbnail and thought "Owlbear" and clicked on this video because I thought he'd help me better understand cognition through D&D
Woah, I felt so smart when I figured out the answer the riddle, I said "aha!" as it popped up on the screen. Might have been because he talked about fruit in the earlier segment, lemon and orange and all that.
But is it a tree before anyone has recognized it as such or is it enough that someone would recognize it as such if they observed it? What if no intelligence even existed that could recognize it? Either way while this was mostly just meant as a cute play on the "If a tree falls in the forest..." philosophy trope there is a small point to it. The question is whether the tree is the matter/energy or our abstract mental representation of it.
It's just a thought experiment. Nothing to get bogged down in. Like most of these it mostly depends on how you chose to define the words in the question. But it serves to highlight that these concepts and prototypes are created by our minds like said in the video. Is sound vibrations in air or something we hear? Is color a frequency of electromagnetic radiation or is it something we see? Is a tree a collection of atoms or an abstract mental representation? Did you score a goal in soccer if the referee didn't see it? Was OJ innocent because he was found not guilty by a jury?
Your question wasn't posted when I started writing my last post. I was writing it in response to the earlier posts between You and Eric that were not there when I started writing my first reply. I'm not advocating solipsism. There is an underlying reality that is the same for everyone. We also have a shared biological evolution that offers a very broad baseline. On top of that we have culture and language and education that provide even further shared elements that help synchronize our concepts and prototypes. That these things are abstract doesn't mean that they are completely random.
crash course has been helping me in my college degree of Psychology - from Philo, ethics, Cognitive psych etc.. thank you.. thank you so much , as an ADHDer, it made me love my chosen course, deep dive, advance and equipped. I can say that I am not good in memorizing terms, but the concepts? Ghad I can put everything I have learned in real life situations and be able to explain it to anyone =)
pineapples are called pineapples because in the past in the early english language all fruits were just called differend kinds of apples, like oranges were called applesin. anyway pineapple look like a half fruit half pinecone or piney thing and thats why they were named pineapples, because when they started renaming them like the orange when that became a word for a colour and it wasn't just called yellowred, pineapple just didn't have a better name
Did you see the cartoon of the guy with a bowtie fighting the guy in glasses? The guy with the bowtie is Bill Nye the science guy and the guy in glasses is Ken Ham. Ken Ham is the president of the creation museum. Ken Ham believes in a literal interpretation of the bible. Thus, he and his followers believe that the earth is flat.
Moonbeam ham was completely off topic foot half of the debate and bill kept pointing out that there are way too many hours in creationism. Did you notice that ham says indirectly that the bible is impossible when he talks about not being able to being able to make life from a dead stick. Exodus, anyone?
***** You know, there is a direct link to the amount of Creationists who believe in unproven theories of creation, and the people who believes in unproven conspiracy theories.
hey hello, just kinda saying, the idea of 'you think therefore you are' by Decartes actually talks about consciousness being the only 'sole' evidence of existence, meaning that if everything in the world turns out to be an illusion which you can be made to doubt, including your own consciousness, this very thought and the fact that you can doubt your own consciousness is proof that you indeed have a consciousness to do the doubting. Hence you must exist. I'm not all too sure of its relation with correct or incorrect thinking but just sharing in case :)
