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• Book title: Thinking, fast and slow
• Author: Kahneman
• Edition: 1st edition

What is the book 'Thinking, fast and slow' by Kahneman about?

• Thinking, Fast and Slow is an internationally renowned book written for anyone interested in personal well-being and human development.The book gives a schematic explanation of how people can make better choices by describing how our thinking interprets past, future, and present situations in correct and incorrect ways.
• Thinking, fast and slow’, a New York Times bestseller and multiple prize winner, is a highly praised book that provides us many insights into the human mind. It is seen as a guide to detecting and correcting our biased misunderstandings of the world. We see ourselves as rational thinkers and decision makers, but this book demonstrates how we are subject to many systematic errors, which we are not even aware of or tend to ignore.
• The author, Daniel Kahneman, won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2002. Kahneman collaborated with psychologist Amos Tversky until his death in 1996, they together produced a fair amount of the research mentioned in this book. He brings in his own research, as well as that of other renowned experts (psychologists, economists, statisticians). Kahneman (1934) is Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Princeton University and Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs Emeritus at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Kahneman is considered one of the greatest psychologists. He provides new insights into the understanding of risk, cognitive psychology, behavioral economics, the study of well-being and happiness and the analysis of reason and rationality. It is not only an important read for people who want to learn about human behaviour, the findings are valuable to investors, businesses, consumers, teachers, physicians, politicians, marketers and many others.
• The book focuses mostly on biases of intuition. Kahneman’s aim is improving the ability to identify and understand errors of judgment and choice, particularly in ourselves, by presenting a view of how the mind works that draws on recent developments in social and cognitive psychology (as opposed to many authors who discuss earlier research). One of these developments is the better understanding of the flaws and wonders of intuitive thought.
• The book is mainly about the distinction between fast and slow thinking, which Kahneman refers to as ‘System 1’ and ‘System 2.“Thinking, fast and slow’ is divided into five parts. Parts 1 discusses the basis elements of this two-system approach to judgment and choice. It demonstrates the distinction between System 1 (automatic operations) and System 2 (controlled operations) and how associative memory, the heart of System 1, consistently creates a coherent interpretation of what is happening around us. This automatic process underlies intuitive thinking and explains the heuristics of judgment. Part 2 is about new insights into judgment heuristics and why it is so hard to think statistically in contrary to thinking associatively. Part 3 demonstrates a significant limitation of our mind: the excessive confidence

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Blocks 1 & 3

Applied Cognitive Psychology

• Study material: Articles via Brightspace
• About the exam: The final grade is a weighted average of the exam (50%) and workgroup projects (50%)

Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology

• Study material: Articles via Brightspace
• About the exam: The final grade is a weighted average of the exam with open ended essay questions (60%) and work group assignments (40%)

Clinical Neuropsychology

• Study material:
  • Clinical Neuropsychology by Kessels e.a., Revised 1st edition
• About the exam: The final grade is a weighted average of the exam with multiple choice and open questions (60%) and an assignment (40%)

Clinical Psychology

• Study material: Articles via Brightspace
• About the exam: The final grade is a weighted average of the exam (30%), participation and homework assignments (70%)

Economic and Consumer Psychology

• Study material:
  • Book: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Kahneman, 1st edition
  • Articles via Brightspace
• About the exam: The final grade is a weighted average of the multiple choice exam (50%) and work group assignments (50%)

Good Research Practices

• Study material: Articles on Brightspace
• About the exam: The final grade is based on a written exam grade with MC and open questions (40%) and two assignments (60%)

Blocks 2 & 4

Cognitive Neuroscience

• Study material:
  • Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biology of the Mind by Gazzaniga a.o. - 5th edition
• About the exam: The final grade is a weighted average of the exam (50%) and the workgroup grade (50%)

Health and Medical Psychology

• Study material:
  • An Introduction to Health Psychology by Morrison & Bennet - 5th edition
  • Articles on Brightspace
• About the exam: The final grade is a weighted average of the exam (60%) and the workgroup grade (40%)

School Psychology

• Study material:
  • Psychology of Education: Theory, Research and Evidence-Based Practice by Lord - 1st edition
  • Articles on Brightspace
• About the exam: The final grade is a weighted average of the exam (70%) and the workgroup grade (30%)

Social Psychology in Organisations

• Study material:
  • Essentials of Organizational Behavior by Scandura - 3rd edition
• About the exam: The final grade is a weighted average of the exam (50%) and the workgroup grade (50%)