Many factors determine a person's ability to make good decisions. A video summary of Judgment under Uncertainty by Tversky and Kahneman discusses the idea that mental shortcuts can lead errors in judgment. The portion of a larger playlist about the world's greatest ideas uses pictures and examples to help support its key points.

Concepts

making decisions, self-awareness, media coverage

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Discuss what factors may cause learners to make a particular decision, such as whether to get into the water at the beach
• Create a diagram to help illustrate the concept the video discusses

Classroom Considerations

• Requires understanding of basic principles of psychology and terms such as cognitive bias and heuristics

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Offers clear, well-paced narration
• Uses a real-world analogy to help make the theory clearer

Cons

• Attempts to pack in a lot of information at once without charts or other visuals to help make it easier to comprehend

Common Core

RH.9-10.2 RH.9-10.10 RH.11-12.2 RH.11-12.10