Tuesday, March 29, 2011

REMINDER

Honors Project: Contemporary Interpretation DUE TUESDAY, APRIL 26

Thursday, March 17, 2011

DATES, DATES, DATES

TUESDAY, MARCH 29 : IN CLASS WRITING LAB. Bring a rough draft of your paper for me to review/edit. THIS IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Please sign up for consultations in message box below. I will work on a first come first serve basis.

THURSDAY, MARCH 31: ART CRITICISM (Museum Visit Paper) DUE

Saturday, March 12, 2011

REMINDERS

FIELD TRIP: TUESDAY MARCH 15, NORTON MUSEUM

GROUP PROJECT: INTERPRETATION DUE THURSDAY, MARCH 17

Thursday, March 3, 2011

The Baroque

Peter Paul Rubens, The Consequences of War, 1638-39 from Smarthistory Videos on Vimeo.


Baroque Art from Smarthistory Videos on Vimeo.


Caravaggio Contarelli Chapel from Smarthistory Videos on Vimeo.


Ribera, Martyrdom of St Philip from Smarthistory Videos on Vimeo.


Diego Velázquez, Vulcan's Forge, c. 1630 from Smarthistory Videos on Vimeo.


Diego Velázquez, Los Borrachos (The Triumph of Bacchus), 1628-29 (Prado) from Smarthistory Videos on Vimeo.




Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas from Smarthistory Videos on Vimeo.


Nicolas Poussin from Smarthistory Videos on Vimeo.


Claude Lorrain, The Judgment of Paris from Smarthistory Videos on Vimeo.


Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Swing from Smarthistory Videos on Vimeo.


Boucher, Venus Consoling Love from Smarthistory Videos on Vimeo.


Rembrandt, The Three Crosses, 1653 from Smarthistory Videos on Vimeo.


Caravaggio, The Supper at Emmaus, 1601 from Smarthistory Videos on Vimeo.


Rembrandt, Bathsheba at Her Bath, 1654 from Smarthistory Videos on Vimeo.


Caravaggio, Death of the Virgin, 1605-06 from Smarthistory Videos on Vimeo.


Rubens, The Debarkation at Marseilles, 1622-1625 from Smarthistory Videos on Vimeo.


Rembrandt's Self-Portraits from Smarthistory Videos on Vimeo.


Vermeer, Young Woman with a Water Pitcher from Smarthistory Videos on Vimeo.


Gentileschi, Self-portrait as the Allegory of Painting, 1638-39 from Smarthistory Videos on Vimeo.

Caravaggio, Narcissus at the Source, 1597-99 from Smarthistory Videos on Vimeo.


Caravaggio, Calling of St. Matthew, c. 1599-1600 from Smarthistory Videos on Vimeo.


Bernini, Cathedra Petri (or Chair of St. Peter), 1647-53 from Smarthistory Videos on Vimeo.


Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Bust of Medusa, marble, c. 1644-48 (Capitoline Museum) from Smarthistory Videos on Vimeo.


Bernini, Ecstasy of St. Theresa, 1647-52 from Smarthistory Videos on Vimeo.

bernini-pluto from Smarthistory Videos on Vimeo.

Bernini, David, 1623-24 from Smarthistory Videos on Vimeo.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

on CRITICAL THINKING



What is a Cognitive Bias??

Anchoring – the common human tendency to rely too heavily, or "anchor," on one trait or piece of information when making decisions.

Bandwagon effect – the tendency to do (or believe) things because many other people do (or believe) the same. Related to groupthink and herd behavior.

Bias blind spot – the tendency to see oneself as less biased than other people.

Confirmation bias – the tendency to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions.

Framing effect – drawing different conclusions from the same information, depending on how that information is presented.

Hostile media effect - the tendency to see a media report as being biased due to one's own strong partisan views.

Hyperbolic discounting – the tendency for people to have a stronger preference for more immediate payoffs relative to later payoffs, where the tendency increases the closer to the present both payoffs are.

Illusion of control – the tendency to overestimate one's degree of influence over other external events.

Irrational escalation – the phenomenon where people justify increased investment in a decision, based on the cumulative prior investment, despite new evidence suggesting that the decision was probably wrong.

Mere exposure effect – the tendency to express undue liking for things merely because of familiarity with them.

Normalcy bias – the refusal to plan for, or react to, a disaster which has never happened before.

Planning fallacy – the tendency to underestimate task-completion times.

Post-purchase rationalization – the tendency to persuade oneself through rational argument that a purchase was a good value.

Reactance – the urge to do the opposite of what someone wants you to do out of a need to resist a perceived attempt to constrain your freedom of choice.

Restraint bias – the tendency to overestimate one's ability to show restraint in the face of temptation.

Semmelweis reflex – the tendency to reject new evidence that contradicts an established paradigm.

Wishful thinking – the formation of beliefs and the making of decisions according to what is pleasing to imagine instead of by appeal to evidence or rationality.

Authority bias – the tendency to value an ambiguous stimulus (e.g., an art performance) according to the opinion of someone who is seen as an authority on the topic.

Availability cascade – a self-reinforcing process in which a collective belief gains more and more plausibility through its increasing repetition in public discourse (or "repeat something long enough and it will become true").

Clustering illusion – the tendency to see patterns where actually none exist.

Gambler's fallacy – the tendency to think that future probabilities are altered by past events, when in reality they are unchanged. Results from an erroneous conceptualization of the

Hindsight bias – sometimes called the "I-knew-it-all-along" effect, the tendency to see past events as being predictable.

Overconfidence effect – excessive confidence in one's own answers to questions. For example, for certain types of questions, answers that people rate as "99% certain" turn out to be wrong 40% of the time.

Pareidolia – a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) is perceived as significant, e.g., seeing images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the moon, and hearing hidden messages on records played in reverse.

Pessimism bias – the tendency for some people, especially those suffering from depression, to overestimate the likelihood of negative things happening to them.

Stereotyping – expecting a member of a group to have certain characteristics without having actual information about that individual.

Egocentric bias – occurs when people claim more responsibility for themselves for the results of a joint action than an outside observer would.

Forer effect (aka Barnum effect) – the tendency to give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that supposedly are tailored specifically for them, but are in fact vague and general enough to apply to a wide range of people. For example, horoscopes.

False consensus effect – the tendency for people to overestimate the degree to which others agree with them.

Herd instinct – common tendency to adopt the opinions and follow the behaviors of the majority to feel safer and to avoid conflict.

Ingroup bias – the tendency for people to give preferential treatment to others they perceive to be members of their own groups

.Just-world phenomenon – the tendency for people to believe that the world is just and therefore people "get what they deserve."

Outgroup homogeneity bias – individuals see members of their own group as being relatively more varied than members of other groups.

Projection bias – the tendency to unconsciously assume that others (or one's future selves) share one's current emotional states, thoughts and values.

Self-serving bias – the tendency to claim more responsibility for successes than failures. It may also manifest itself as a tendency for people to evaluate ambiguous information in a way beneficial to their interests.

System justification – the tendency to defend and bolster the status quo. Existing social, economic, and political arrangements tend to be preferred, and alternatives disparaged sometimes even at the expense of individual and collective self-interest. (See also status quo bias.)