STEP 3
Organize Ideas
Using the information in STEP 2, answer the following questions.
What is the phenomenon called and how would you define it?
Frequency illusion
is
a cognitive bias in which a person becomes
more aware of a newly learned concept after encountering it
.
Explain how it works, and describe its outcome. Use a form of do so.
In experiments illustrating the phenomenon,
participants learn
a new word “hangry”
.
After doing
so,
they start to notice the word everywhere
.
But it’s not that “hangry” is more common; it’s just that their brains
are paying extra attention to it now.
What is the implication of the phenomenon?
What
frequency illusion
shows is that
our perception is influenced
by our previous experiences
.
How can we apply this understanding to our daily lives?
We can use this knowledge to
become more mindful of the way
our biases shape our reality
.