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🧠 How Belief Affects Perception
Grade 9-12
In this lesson, students experience firsthand how prior beliefs shape perception and interpretation. The teacher presents the same ambiguous story to two groups of students with different prior beliefs. Despite hearing identical information, each group interprets the event differently.
The activity demonstrates top-down processing, schemas, and confirmation bias, and concludes with a guided debrief connecting belief-driven perception to real-world situations.
The activity demonstrates top-down processing, schemas, and confirmation bias, and concludes with a guided debrief connecting belief-driven perception to real-world situations.
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