Media & the Mind: Crash Course Media Literacy #4

You are constantly surrounded by media, so the question is: how does your brain handle all of that? The unfortunate answer is that our brains have a lot of processes that not super helpful for media literacy, but hopefully with a little self-awareness, we can work around that.

Introduction: How do our minds react to media? 0:00
Cognitive Load and automation 1:06
Schema 1:30
Memory 2:34
The Law of Closure 3:00
False Memory 3:49
Thought Bubble: Conformation Bias 4:41
Social Media 6:30
Information Satisficing 6:50
Humans love stories 7:24
Credits 8:42

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