Month: September 2020

After reading those three articles I found out the concept of confirmation bias was really difficult to understand and hard to achieve because I never thought people are doing misconceptions very often in daily lives. Also, I was in philosophy class last semester and I thought I already know how people are having false beliefs or confirmation bias. It was easy to correct based on practices and tricks. For example, I always think man should be treat equally in marriage. However, when the problem comes to my real life, I immediately think man should take responsibilities, get a job and work twice hard than woman. So, it is end up judging my dad when he doesn’t do the house work or doesn’t get a job right away. I just put “man stereotype” on my dad. Because of my misconception thinking, I do not think break our daily thinking is that hard to achieve. However, as I get to read the article “Why is learning hard?”, I slowly understand if we want to fix our misconceptions, we need to have motivation in the beginning and question ourselves based on what we already know. Then try to make a plan to achieve the goal.

Due to the misconceptions in my mind, I finally decide to take some steps to change that. I really don’t want my confirmation bias effect my life in future like misunderstanding my family members or friends. My motivation is changing stereotypes about all male. First, I was trying to do all the works that my dads did. For example, I was doing house work and attending to a job everyday. I found a job in China that had similar pressure as my dad’s job which was a company employee who report to colleagues. After I done my work everyday, I went back to home and I still got house work to do. Finally, I found out where was my dad’s pressure come from. There were reasons behind his anger and all the responsibilities he needs to take. Overall, when the misconceptions come to mind, I just imagine myself into that situations and put myself in the other person’s shoes. My philosophy professor teaches me a good advice is trying to avoid the gender different like he always covers the name while he is marking the test. As a result, according to the article “Why is learning har?”, I like to conclude that I know give less credibility to what we already agree and change our thought that we already believe is super hard; but reward and surprise always come to the end (Chapter1, September 14^th, 2020). That positive reinforcement may shape our personality too.

hey my name is zihan bai but i prefer Amy bai in this class. I am psyc major student in third year. I like human behavior and interesting in what people is thinking that stuff. In my free time i like to cook, bake, draw, listen music, hike, watch movie, chill with friends and long walks in natural. I am friendly and nice person so feel free to ask any questions. I like to make new friends so i can add you on ins or snapchat.