Grade 10

 
Flowers Seen Through Kaleidoscope
How We See Things

Is seeing always believing?


How To Make Eyewitness Testimony More Reliable

Source: SciShow Psych (YouTube)

Eyewitness testimony can be really important when investigating crimes, but how can we make them more reliable? SciShow looks at the scientific and psychological evidence around several ways in which your memory can fail–and how we may be able to minimize these effects.


Man Getting Shocked While Repairing Lamp

The Dunning-Kruger Effect, or ‘why incompetent people think they’re amazing’

Source: TED Education

How good are you at basketball? What about playing an instrument? Psychological research suggests we’re not actually very good at evaluating our own abilities accurately. In fact, we frequently overestimate our own abilities thanks to something known as the Dunning-Kruger Effect.



















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