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Study examines common cognitive biases (have you tried this brain teaser?) and ways to mitigate them

August 30, 2021 by SharpBrains

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A fas­ci­nat­ing new study, Tver­sky and Kahneman’s Cog­ni­tive Illu­sions: Who Can Solve Them, and Why?, probes into the cog­ni­tive “heuris­tics and bias­es” researched by Daniel Kah­ne­man and Amos Tver­sky since the late 1960s.

If you have nev­er encoun­tered the “Lin­da brain teas­er” before, please give it a try:

Lin­da is 31 years old, sin­gle, out­spo­ken, and very bright. She majored in phi­los­o­phy. As a stu­dent, she was deeply con­cerned with issues of dis­crim­i­na­tion and social jus­tice, and also par­tic­i­pat­ed in anti-nuclear demonstrations.

Which state­ment is more probable?

(a) Lin­da is a bank teller.

(b) Lin­da is a bank teller and is active in the fem­i­nist movement.

 

Quick! What’s your answer? [Read more…] about Study exam­ines com­mon cog­ni­tive bias­es (have you tried this brain teas­er?) and ways to mit­i­gate them

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Filed Under: Brain Teasers, Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: adults, Bayesian reasoning, Brain Teasers, brain-teaser, cognitive, cognitive biases, cognitive illusion, cognitive illusions, cognitive-abilities, cognitive-ability, cognitive-bias, free-brain-teasers, Linda problem, logical thinking, statistical reasoning

Quick brain teaser: Which train is going the wrong way?

October 8, 2019 by SharpBrains

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In the image above –cour­tesy of Heathrow Express– you can see 27 trains on the tracks.

Quick. Can you spot the  outlier?

[Read more…] about Quick brain teas­er: Which train is going the wrong way?

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Filed Under: Brain Teasers Tagged With: adults, Brain Teasers, brain teasers for adults, Brain-games, brain-teaser, bus, free-brain-teasers, fun, quick brain teaser, quick brain teasers, trains

Fun brain teasers for kids and adults: Which train is going the “wrong” way? And, where is that bus going?

March 26, 2018 by SharpBrains

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In the image above, cour­tesy of Heathrow Express. you can see 27 trains on the tracks.

Quick — can you spot the  outlier?

(Not nec­es­sar­i­ly “wrong”, just dif­fer­ent from all oth­er trains) [Read more…] about Fun brain teasers for kids and adults: Which train is going the “wrong” way? And, where is that bus going?

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Filed Under: Brain Teasers, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: adults, Brain Teasers, Brain-games, brain-teaser, bus, free-brain-teasers, fun, kids, quick brain teasers, trains

Brain Teaser for pattern recognition: The Empty Triangle

October 12, 2017 by Caroline Latham

Here you have a quick brain teaser…which num­ber should be placed in the emp­ty tri­an­gle to  the right?

This puz­zle works your exec­u­tive func­tions in your frontal lobes by using your pat­tern recog­ni­tion, hypoth­e­sis test­ing, and logic.

Warn­ing: There can be more than one solution…but make sure what­ev­er you say works in all four triangles!

The Emp­ty Triangle

Pattern Recognition Test - Empty Triangle

Let us know how you do! [Read more…] about Brain Teas­er for pat­tern recog­ni­tion: The Emp­ty Triangle

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Filed Under: Brain Teasers, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: brain, brain teasers adults, brain-teaser, free-brain-teasers, teaser

5 quick brain teasers to sharpen two key cognitive skills: attention and working memory

March 31, 2017 by Caroline Latham

Look­ing for some fun–and free–cognitive stim­u­la­tion over the week­end? Here you have a few quick brain teasers to chal­lenge your atten­tion and your work­ing mem­ory (work­ing mem­ory is the capac­i­ty to keep infor­ma­tion in your mind while work­ing on pro­cess­ing and inte­grat­ing it)

Please give them a try…they are not as easy as they may seem 🙂 [Read more…] about 5 quick brain teasers to sharp­en two key cog­ni­tive skills: atten­tion and work­ing memory

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Filed Under: Brain Teasers Tagged With: adults, attention, brain games for adults, Brain Teasers, brain teasers for adults, brain-teaser, cognitive, cognitive-abilities, cognitive-ability, cognitive-skills, cognitive-stimulation, free-brain-teasers, mind-teasers, skills, Working-memory

23. Quick brainteaser to test your cognitive skills…and biases

January 20, 2015 by SharpBrains

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Brain teas­er: Please con­sider Lin­da, a 31-year-old woman, sin­gle and bright. When she was a stu­dent, in high school and in col­lege too, she was deeply involved in social jus­tice issues, and also par­tic­i­pated in envi­ron­men­tal protests. Which is more prob­a­ble about Linda’s occu­pa­tion today? [Read more…] about 23. Quick brain­teas­er to test your cog­ni­tive skills…and biases

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