Summary of Mahzarin R. Banaji & Anthony G. Greenwald's Blindspot

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The experiment showed that the audience was unable to see the difference between the two tabletops, because they were exactly the same. The speaker went on to explain how the eye receives, the brain registers, and the mind interprets visual information.
#2 The visual illusion called Turning the Tables demonstrates the success of a visual system that has adapted to the combination of a two-dimensional retina inside the eye and a three-dimensional world outside. The brain’s automatic understanding of the data is so confident that it imposes the third dimension of depth onto the scene.
#3 The modern conception of the unconscious mind is credited to another historical figure, Hermann von Helmholtz, who described how the mind creates from physical data the conscious perceptions that define our ordinary and subjective experiences of seeing.
#4 The mind is an automatic association-making machine. When it encounters any information, related information comes to mind. In this case, the words in the original list had a insect theme, and unthinkingly, we used that shared theme as we tried to remember the past.

Sujets

• Organizational studies

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 24 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669363750
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Mahzarin R. Banaji & Anthony G. Greenwald's Blindspot
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The experiment showed that the audience was unable to see the difference between the two tabletops, because they were exactly the same. The speaker went on to explain how the eye receives, the brain registers, and the mind interprets visual information.

#2

The visual illusion called Turning the Tables demonstrates the success of a visual system that has adapted to the combination of a two-dimensional retina inside the eye and a three-dimensional world outside. The brain’s automatic understanding of the data is so confident that it imposes the third dimension of depth onto the scene.

#3

The modern conception of the unconscious mind is credited to another historical figure, Hermann von Helmholtz, who described how the mind creates from physical data the conscious perceptions that define our ordinary and subjective experiences of seeing.

#4

The mind is an automatic association-making machine. When it encounters any information, related information comes to mind. In this case, the words in the original list had a insect theme, and unthinkingly, we used that shared theme as we tried to remember the past.

#5

The number of wrongful convictions produced by eyewitness errors is substantial. From the efforts of the Innocence Project, which aims to exonerate the wrongfully convicted through DNA testing, 250 people have been exonerated so far.

#6

The availability heuristic is when we overestimate the likelihood of an event happening because it comes to mind more easily. The anchoring heuristic is when we overestimate the value of a item because of its suggested market price.

#7

Humans are social animals, and the primate brain has evolved to pay attention to others of its kind. It has been shown that selective brain regions are active when we imagine the thoughts of another person and when we try to predict the actions of others.

#8

The availability bias is when we pay attention to information that is easily accessible, and this can lead to judgments being made based on only a small amount of information.

#9

We make judgments about others based on their group membership, which can lead to both trust and distrust that are in error.

#10

The social group to which a person belongs can be a definitive cause of the disparate treatment they receive. Stereotypes can be harmful not just to the others we assess and evaluate, but also to ourselves.

#11

The modern world is different from the one our ancestors lived in, and it is difficult for us to navigate it rationally.