Crash Course Media Literacy #4 "Media & the Mind"

You see a bunch of dots in the shape of a panda, and you think "panda"- that's called...

Our brains are good automating routine stuff.

A thought pattern, the way brains understand tasks, the desired outcomes of the task, the strategy for getting there is

Which social media platform is built to reward confirmation bias.

Our brains are NOT designed to take "short cuts."

Accepting whatever answer is laid out in front of us is called

It is easier to create a "false memory" than it is to change one.

People who experience the same media will take away the same meaning.

Hunting for information we already believe to be true is called...

The human instinct for storytelling is straight up dangerous to media literacy.