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How to Play 52 Essential Critical Thinking Cards
Ways to play, level 1: knowledge-building.
TAKE TURNS DRAWING A CARD COLLECT 15 TO WIN.
"Bias Blitz"
Announce the cognitive bias name on the top of the card. Players shout out the definition based on the name. The first to guess correctly wins the card. If no one does, reveal the definition and return the card to the draw pile.
"Critical Contemplation"
Read the definition and quote on the card without revealing its name. Players take turns naming this cognitive bias. The player with the closest or funniest name wins the card.
LEVEL 2: COMPREHENSION
TAKE TURNS DRAWING A CARD COLLECT 10 TO WIN.
"Cognitive Conquest"
Read the example on the card out loud. Players take turns guessing the bias name and the cognitive assumptions it involves. The player who guesses correctly collects the card.
"Bias Breakdown"
Explain the concept on your card in terms a 5-year-old would understand. If your explanation helps others guess correctly, you collect the card.
LEVEL 3: REAL-WORLD APPLICATION
COLLECT 8 TO WIN.
"Gaslight Gambit"
Place all cards face up. Watch the news or a political debate. The first player to verbally identify a bias being committed collects the card. BONUS: explain why the bias happened.
"Bias Baffle"
Players take turns describing a scenario from their personal or professional life without naming the bias. Player who guesses correctly collects the card.
LEVEL 4: ANALYSIS
"cognitive clash".
Players take turns choosing two cards that either amplify or counteract each other’s effect. Collect the cards if you successfully persuade the other players of your logical reasoning behind the pairing.
"Bias Breakthrough"
To collect a card, explain strategies we can take to mitigate or avoid the bias. Bonus: describe how implementing these strategies could lead to positive changes.
LEVEL 5: EVALUATE
LAY ALL CARDS FACE UP LEAST NUMBER WINS.
"BS Buster"
Review a social media post, ad, or an opinion article. Identify and summarize any sentences that use cognitive bias to persuade you to do or think a certain way. What impact could these have on readers' views or choices?
"Bias Beacon"
Come up with questions that would expose the bias (assumptions, flaw in thinking) in the identified sentences from above.
Take the Implicit Bias Quiz
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52 Essential Critical Thinking Skills
52 Essential Critical Thinking Skills is a card game to uncover cognitive biases for better problem-solving, smarter decision-making. Concepts from behavioral economics, cognitive science, and social psychology are made SIMPLE and FUN for youth and adults. The cards come with five learn and play levels that range from building knowledge and understanding to hands-on practice to apply, analyze, and evaluate information. Comes with directions and videos on how to play at home and school. Portable in a sturdy tin box.
Evaluation comments:
“I like that these cards are encouraging critical thinking. They start out with the knowledge level and then get increasingly challenging until one can at level 5 be able to assess their own essays/journals and understand their cognitive biases.”
“This is a very unique game and will definitely support critical thinking and well-thought out decision making in life.”
“There are five levels of play: Knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis and evaluation. I like that these levels are based on research in how people learn and remember. There are clear directions for each level and there are two ways to play at each level.”
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This deck of Critical Thinking Cards will help you spot manipulation, dodgy logic, propaganda and persuasion techniques from advertisers, politicians, the media, and your own brain. Includes: 24 Logical Fallacies. 24 Cognitive Biases. 3 Game Cards. 3 Call-out Cards.
This deck of Critical Thinking Cards will help you spot manipulation, dodgy logic, propaganda and persuasion techniques from advertisers, politicians, the media, and your own brain. Includes: 24 Logical Fallacies. 24 Cognitive Biases. 3 Game Cards. 3 Call-out Cards.
This deck of Critical Thinking Cards will help spot manipulation, dodgy logic, propaganda and persuasion techniques from advertisers, politicians, the media, and your own brain. Each deck includes: 24 Logical Fallacies; 24 Cognitive Biases; 3 Game Cards; 3 Call-out Cards
How to Play: 52 Essential Critical Thinking cards by Mind Brain Emotion. Watch on. WAYS TO PLAY LEVEL 1: KNOWLEDGE-BUILDING TAKE TURNS DRAWING A CARD COLLECT 15 TO WIN. "Bias Blitz" Announce the cognitive bias name on the top of the card. Players shout out the definition based on the name. The first to guess correctly wins the card.
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52 Essential Critical Thinking Skills is a card game to uncover cognitive biases for better problem-solving, smarter decision-making. Concepts from behavioral economics, cognitive science, and social psychology are made SIMPLE and FUN for youth and adults.