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As the introduction to this week explains, and as the reading in your course text elaborates, recognizing bias and errors in thinking is vital to the study of cross-cultural psychology. Awareness of your thought processes is fundamental to gaining insight into how you think about culture and to expanding your capacity to think more broadly and objectively about people you meet and human activities you observe. The ability to think about thinking, or metathinking, also develops the critical inquiry and problem-solving skills that are valued in many careers.

Keep in mind that bias and errors in thinking are very human. The root cause is often the mind’s effort to save time and take shortcuts in understanding and responding to situations, which may impact accurate decision making. That is why developing critical thinking skills involves evaluating your own thinking in order to know your vulnerabilities and how to enhance your decision-making

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skills. As you do this, you will also become more aware of errors others make when interacting with you.

For this Discussion, you will consider several biases and errors in thinking and how at least one applies to you. Be honest in your self-assessment and remember that you are focusing on how you think—not people in general.

Review the Walden Writing Center guidelines on scholarly writing and the page on APA style. Review this week’s Learning Resources. Review the information in Chapter 2 of your course text on the following biases or errors in thinking, including the exercise and/or antidote feature for each:

Fundamental attribution error Self-fulfilling prophecy Naturalistic fallacy Assimilation bias Representativeness bias Availability bias

Review the “Cognitive Biases and Errors in Thinking” interactive media to further help understand these concepts. Choose at least one of the six biases or errors in thinking that is an issue for you when interacting with other people who are different from you in some way, such as in appearance, behavior, language, and/or ideas.

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Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity. Click the weekly resources link to access the resources.

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TO PREPARE:

Post responses to the following:

Briefly describe one bias or thinking error that is an issue for you when interacting with people who are different from you (i.e., someone from a different culture). Give an example of how this error influenced your interaction with others. Explain how the antidotes for your type of bias or thinking error can help you to overcome it. Provide your reasoning. Based on this activity, speculate about the way(s) that bias and thinking errors may affect relationships between people of different races, ethnicities, religions, genders, or other types of differences.

Support the responses within your assignment post with credited evidence from the assigned learning resources (including sentence-level citations). Provide a reference list in APA Style for resources you used in the post.

Important Note: Be mindful of your word choice and avoid slang terminology that is not scholarly and could be offensive to fellow students.

Note: For all Discussions in this course, you are required to complete your initial post before you will be able to view and respond to your colleagues' postings. Begin by clicking on the Reply button to complete your initial post. Remember, once you click on Post Reply, you cannot delete or edit your own posts and you cannot post anonymously. Please check your post carefully before clicking on Post Reply!

Respond to at least one of your colleagues’ posts in the following manner:

Share with your colleague what theme or themes you see emerging about critical thinking errors and how they contribute to tensions in society. After exploring these thinking errors and how they contribute to tensions in society, what additional insights can you provide?

Support the responses within your colleague reply with credited evidence from the assigned learning resources (e.g., including sentence-level citations). Provide a reference list in APA Style for

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