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Cognitive biases

After studying the Dual Process Theory, this lesson plan will focus on the two required cognitive biases: confirmation bias and anchoring bias. Although students may study other cognitive biases throughout the course, these two specific biases may be asked on Paper 1. To prepare for this lesson, students should read the chapter in the textbook. I start with a simple demonstration of confirmation bias. To do this, I...

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