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Season 1 – Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills

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Lectures designed to help people become sharper thinkers in their personal and professional lives.

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Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills — Season 1

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Steven Novella

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Episode 1 Aired Mar 1, 2012 The Necessity of Thinking About Thinking Dr. Steven Novella reveals how to distinguish good science from bad science, the individual steps involved in the critical thinking process, and how to use critical thinking to break down topics such as whether UFOs exist. Details Episode 2 Aired Mar 1, 2012 The Neuroscience of Belief Exploring the neuroscience behind how brains are hardwired to believe in something. Details Episode 3 Aired Mar 1, 2012 Errors of Perception Understanding the nature of perception, how the human brain works to acquire and process information, and how sometimes it can be deceived. Details Episode 4 Aired Mar 1, 2012 Flaws and Fabrications of Memory Unpacking the vital role memories play in critical thinking and how recall works. Details Episode 5 Aired Mar 1, 2012 Pattern Recognition - Seeing What's Not There Pattern recognition is both a cognitive strength and a weakness that helps sort out what's real from what only appears to be real. Details Episode 6 Aired Mar 1, 2012 Our Constructed Reality Exploring how different parts of the brain work together -- sometimes in conflict -- to construct aggregate consciousness and the illusion of a single reality, with topics ranging from out-of-body experiences to phantom limbs and dreams. Details Episode 7 Aired Mar 1, 2012 The Structure and Purpose of Argument Focusing on argumentation as the most important reasoning tool for overriding flaws in neurological function. Details Episode 8 Aired Mar 1, 2012 Logic and Logical Fallacies Delving further into logical fallacies, including the ad hominem argument and the genetic fallacy, with vivid examples. Details Episode 9 Aired Mar 1, 2012 Heuristics and Cognitive Biases How to avoid a pitfall of critical thinking by mastering the common biases in thinking. Details Episode 10 Aired Mar 1, 2012 Poor at Probability - Our Innate Innumeracy Examining the effects of a flaw known as innumeracy in everything from numerology (the supposedly mystical meaning behind numbers) to hot-and-cold streaks in competitive games. Details Episode 11 Aired Mar 1, 2012 Toward Better Estimates of What's Probable Continuing the exploration of innumeracy by turning to the nature and perception of false positives, insignificant risks, and other manifestations in statistics and probability. Details Episode 12 Aired Mar 1, 2012 Culture and Mass Delusions Dr. Steven Novella explains the hidden power and pervasiveness of mass delusion and hysteria. Details Episode 13 Aired Mar 1, 2012 Philosophy and Presuppositions of Science Examining how science serves as the foundation for critical thinking and can compensate for the tendency of human thinking to go awry. Details Episode 14 Aired Mar 1, 2012 Science and the Supernatural A critical thinker's perspective on supernatural issues such as the existence of ghosts and the possibility of miracles. Details Episode 15 Aired Mar 1, 2012 Varieties and Quality of Scientific Evidence The best way to question and compare scientific studies providing evidence and support to a range of ideas and arguments. Details Episode 16 Aired Mar 1, 2012 Great Scientific Blunders Learn how important skepticism is as a first response to scientific claims by surveying blunders that resulted from a lack of critical thinking. Details Episode 17 Aired Mar 1, 2012 Science Versus Pseudoscience Breaking down the concept of pseudoscience by exploring some of its most prominent features or warning signs. Details Episode 18 Aired Mar 1, 2012 The Many Kinds of Pseudoscience Deconstructing several examples of pseudoscience to see how its various features work, including iridology, photographs that claim to capture ghosts, psychic abilities, spontaneous human combustion and more. Details Episode 19 Aired Mar 2, 2012 The Trap of Grand Conspiracy Thinking Studying how conspiracy theories are cognitive traps that result from attempts to make sense of a complex world. Details Episode 20 Aired Mar 1, 2012 Denialism - Rejecting Science and History Dr. Steven Novella introduces denialism, a subset of pseudoscience that seeks to deny established science. Details Episode 21 Aired Mar 1, 2012 Marketing, Scams and Urban Legends Tips for using critical thinking to filter the wealth of information available online from chain e-mails to scams and other everyday outlets that exploit human psychology. Details Episode 22 Aired Mar 1, 2012 Science, Media and Democracy Exploring the strengths and weaknesses of science reporting in the media, the intersection between science and ethics, politics, social issues, and the important role of science literacy. Details Episode 23 Aired Mar 1, 2012 Experts and Scientific Consensus Weighing how reliable scientific consensus is on hot-button issues such as climate change. Details Episode 24 Aired Mar 1, 2012 Critical Thinking and Science in Your Life Dr. Steven Novella shares final thoughts on thinking more critically in everyday life. Details
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Season Info

Network
Prime Video
Rating
TV-PG
Genre
Special Interest, Health & Wellness
Original Language
English
Release Date
Mar 1, 2012