In the Blindspot reading, the “Mindbugs” chapter was so interesting as I had never heard of this concept before. Mindbugs, or “ingrained habits of thought that lead to errors in how we perceive, remember, reason, and make decisions” certainly pertains to this course (4). In becoming effective consumers of information, we need to be wary of these mindbugs. In understanding these errors, Hermann von Helmholtz describes the “unconscious inference” by which our visual system is tricked (6). I did not even think of this in how we process words– as for my classes pretty much all I do is read books and empirical articles! Now I wonder if I have ever fallen victim to mindbugs when processing information. Mindbugs also have the power to “produce greater recollection of things that didn’t occur than of things that did occur” and I have definitely been susceptible to this on exams that required me to pull from my short-term memory, such as a vocabulary quiz, where I tried to pull more information than was actually needed (9). While a quiz is not a big deal, the author mentions that mindbugs can come into play in criminal cases; I am taking a child development class right now and we discuss child eyewitness testimony was at times, children false report things they did not see. This can have extreme behavioral impacts on the witness’s reporting and can even lead to punishments to occur (like the death penalty) for someone who may have been falsely convicted…<\/p>\n
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