BackStage

A good youtube video for cognitive miser:

I also show a Where’s Waldo and talk about how we think — categorize, discard. I get them to describe how they go through the image trying to find Waldo.

And, to make things more interesting, I talk about “Hot” and “Cold” cognitions. Check out this research. Students found it interesting. There is also this Washington Post article I use for one of the paper options.

For Schemas, I ask them to list what characteristics make a dog. How do these differentiate from a cat? What is dogginess? I also ask them to close their eyes and picture a dog and ask them to tell me what they pictured. That is their doggiest dog (mine is a golden retriever).