LP 2b: The Dual Processing model
The following lesson plan looks at the Dual Processing Theory of thinking and decision-making. There are several short activities used in this lesson which are all based on Daniel Kahneman's book "Thinking Fast and Slow." The lesson is not research-heavy because the research on cognitive biases - that is, heuristics - can also be used to demonstrate the model and how it works. To introduce the model, I start by...