Tag
education
Entries tagged with education - exploring this theme across cognitive biases, logical fallacies, mental models, and more.
11 concepts
Cognitive Load
When the demands on your working memory exceed its capacity, your ability to think clearly, make good decisions, and resist manipulation drops sharply.
Technology & SocietyCognitive Offloading
Handing mental work to external tools - and the risk that the thinking we stop doing is the thinking we lose.
Cultural InfluenceCollective Amnesia
How societies forget inconvenient histories, allowing harmful patterns to repeat unchallenged.
Cultural InfluenceConceptual Gentrification
When ideas are stripped of their challenging, uncomfortable, or radical parts and repackaged for comfortable mainstream consumption.
Cultural InfluenceCultural Hegemony
When the dominant group's ideas become everyone's 'common sense' - accepted as natural rather than constructed.
Cognitive BiasCurse of Knowledge
The difficulty of imagining what it's like not to know something you already know.
Systems ThinkingGoodhart's Law
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
Mental ModelIndependent Evaluation
Forming your own judgement about an idea or claim before looking at what everyone else thinks.
Psychological PhenomenonLearned Helplessness
When repeated failure teaches you to stop trying - even when the situation has changed and escape is possible.
Mental ModelMap is Not the Territory
Every model, theory, or description of reality is a simplification - useful, but never the whole picture.
Psychological PhenomenonMicroaggressions
Small, everyday slights and indignities - often unintentional - that communicate hostility or prejudice toward members of marginalised groups.