Quick observation, has anyone else noticed that Hank is doing an incredible job with Crash Course Psychology?! I'm a big history fan, but I really do look forward to these psychology lectures. His delivery and tone is perfect for this topic.

Elizabeth Hogan

9y↑2K

One of the most mind-blowing moments of my life was when I realized that "recognize" was "re-cognize."

(Yes, I am hopelessly nerdish.)

Sunidhi Meesala

4y↑4

This is one of the most mind-blowing moments of my life. :p

domhamai

4y↑6

Language can be very beautiful like that! :)

OddityCat

4y↑11

Same energy as when I randomly realized that percent meant "per cent" as in "per 100" in the middle of 9th grade math class

Maybe I'm late to this realization

Tee

Oh my gosh woahhhh

Leo Hao

5y↑7

I mean like Stun — N + pify = Stupify
And the disarming charm expelliarmus expell + i + arm + us
For that matter dis-arm-ing
(yes im a hp nerd)

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rudy master

4y↑320

FOR MY BENEFIT
*Concepts- similar groupings
*Prototype- mental concepts of things or the best fit idea of something
*Algorithms- a way to solve a problem that grantees a solution
*Huristic- problem solving rule of thumb that may result in a faster result but more errors
*Confirmation bias- searching for researching or ideas that confirm ones prior beliefs
*Availability Heuristic- a mental shortcut that come to mind when considering an event or object

CrashCourse

10y↑113

In this episode of CrashCourse Psychology, Hank discusses thinking & communication, solving problems, creating problems, and a few ideas about what our brains are doing up there.

Cognition: How Your Mind Can Amaze and Betray You - Crash Course Psychology #15

Jestekin E

Md Ashfaqul Islam

make a video on free will, self-control and empathy.

olha2

The table of content is wrong, very wrong.

Tanner Wilson

+CrashCourse Do you have any videos on conditions like Alzheimers, Dementia, warning signs for strokes, etc. My mom's grandmother's went through this till she died a couple of years ago and it was a massive nightmare.

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Taylor Leschinski

7y↑23

These videos are the main reason I have survived Psychology this semester. Thank you, Hank!!

JP B

10y↑35

"If we're mindful of capacity error, and if we honor our ingenuity and intellect, I think our ability to solve any problem is nearly infinite." I do totally agree.

The Pip

9y↑170

When I was little, my mind was blown when I found out adults can get the hiccups. I didn't think they COULDN'T, I just hadn't thought about it before. A different example is when I realized fire hydrants hydrate fires.

Eric Rayburn

10y↑7

Not too much new information here, but I gotta give you an A+ for presentation. Both of you Green brothers are great at conveying a lot of information in a few minutes. Kudos to everyone involved in these productions.

Doug McLaren

8y↑7

Great video. Well written, informative and interestingly presented. Great job guys!!!

Ebonie B

5y↑3

So glad to see this as part of my nursing behavioural classes workshop activites, with focus on cognitive bias! Thanks for the engaging cognition crash course Hank!

Shinning Sunshine

Hey Hank! I absolutely love your "Crash Course' channel and use it as primary source for doing my homework for different subjects. I am a visual learner so books rarely make sense to me but I love the fact that I can use your channel to learn everything I need to know in half the time. I can go on and on to tell you how thankful I am to you and your team to think of this concepts and help thousands of visual learners to learn fast and fully understand information through graphics. I have watched every single video of 'Crash Course History' and have successfully completed my CSET (California Subject Examination for Teachers) Teaching Credential History exam without touching a course book and I am doing the same for my next exam. While I was watching this video, a thought crossed my mind is that have you thought of having your work broadcast on 'History Channel"? Along with million others, I religiously watch history channel. I thought, it would be great to watch your work as Tv series on 'History Channel'.
Anyways, thank you, your brother and 'Crash Course' team for working hard for us (students) and making our lives easier and making homework fun again.
Best wishes,
Sunshine:)

Thats So Krunk

10y↑9

I just want to thank you for making such entertaining, high quality, informative videos. I have watched you and your brothers videos for years and always enjoy them. Please keep posting

Nyenetue Titus Nyankoon

9y↑2

Amazing video, rich and concise, clear, straightforward and full of good humours which makes it very easy to take in.
I've just started a 3yrs BSc Hon. Degree in Psychology and I've found this video very helpful.
Thanks, guys !!!!
Keep up the good work. 😉👍🏾

Deidre Botha

10y↑2

Thank you Hank, on point and all info and titles is on par with my 1st year psychology studies. you are a brilliant speaker and I find it very easy to listen and pay attention throughout, Keep it up!!

Jordan Gilbert

This was really great as ive taken up a facination in cognitive psychology. Would you please do more on this subject breaking it down even more?! Now every time i have an argument with my friend i think of this, its really changed my perspective and the way i view others opinions! Please do more! ❤

Marisa

10y

I love all of you guys at Crash Course! You all do a great job of presenting these subjects in layman's terms & the visuals keep it interesting.

PS you had me LOL when you said "haters gonna hate" 😂

Simone Kay

10y

Excited for the language lesson next week. I hope you get into what happens when the areas of the brain that are predominantly associated with language (wernicke's, broca's, arcuate fasciculus, etc...) are damaged. I just finished my class on Aphasia, and it is pretty interesting stuff.

Zoran

7y↑6

I love all these videos on psychology. They make me feel like a psychologist 🤓

Anna Puganovskaya

4y↑1

Thank you, guys! Very informative and well structured. I like the visual illustrations and the list of main points at the end!

bszabo58

6y↑2

I absolutely LOVE Hank! He has helped me learn more than any professor!

Liz Smith

9y↑1

I really enjoyed this! Thanks for putting together such a humorous yet informative video.

Brian Rainey

I've been thinking on heavy topics for the past few weeks and stumbled on crash course for entertainment and you guys TALKED ABOUT THESE HEAVY TOPICS! Awesome!

McHaven07

10y↑1

Love what you guys are doing here! Keep it up!

Xidnaf

10y↑159

I spent several minutes on that word problem, only when he gave the answer realizing that I'm not supposed to come up with a word to combine with the other three all at once and create a compound word made up of four smaller words, I'm supposed to come up with a word that can be combined with each of the other three to create three different compound words with two words each.

Luigi Pati

best channel ever.....I have not found anything better in years. You guys really do an excellent job with these videos. Thanks.

Robert Masson

9y↑1

Just binge watched your entire series. This is the best episode!

Bob Slartibarti

8y↑821

"We can solve problems better than any organism on the planet"
How can we be sure? I don't think the fungi are really trying

OLUWAROTIMI SANGONIYI

@Nethaneel Mongonia iuuù

Neko Mei

they don’t have to drive to work but they still have to do their thing, which we don’t do on their level, if you want to even consider a scale

Anyiti Nanyama

Them fungi need to get a life! Be serious

airborneleads1981

Lmao

Nethaneel Mongonia

6y↑2

How do you know fungi aren’t trying?...

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Gabrielle Holt

7y↑2

The little video game version of Hank getting excited over finding the Sriacha was absolutely adorable. I live for the Crash Course animations. They're so cute! <3

Michael Hartman

10y

Thank you for sharing your video. It appears to be one of your best. I found it both informative and humorous, indeed your comments seem to be a source for a hefty amount of comedy.

Bharani Sri Gujuluva

5y↑7

we use concepts, prototypes and mental sets to think and communicate. this forms the base of cognition. every individual solves problems in different ways. most popular methods are trial and error, algorithms and heuristics. fixation, the availability heuristic, fear, overconfidence, and belief perseverance. we should always be open to other perspectives and new ideas

Frank Beezy

The best video ever.
I've learned so much about myself & more so about the people around me. The most important video (imo) in the whole series thus far.
AMAZING 👍👍👍

rat-apocalypse

10y↑3

Loving this series!

The Dark Hour

I love how I understood the whole topic of cognition (sans memory) from this summarization.

FantashticIdeas

10y↑5

Oh no! I hope whoever took Hank's fish had a guilty conscious and put it back. Or it could be Hank's evil clone from that Wheezy waiter episode. I hope I got that memory right. Great job, Hank! Psychology has always fascinated me and it's really fun to learn through crash course! :D

ABF

10y↑1

I think that our consciousness is a network of things and ideas in our mind that we can call moral values and personal philosophies etc. (or a separate partition in our minds), and every decision we make is filtered through this executive portion and this is likely what results in many of the "illogical" decisions people make. But, after all, it's what makes us special, we are human.

Tanya

5y↑25

4:42
That example of looking for a family sized sriracha was oddly specific (Hank's exclamation of the dumbness of the store employees also seemed like it was coming from his heart)
Are you alright hank?😂😂

ECoRSC Waltair

i am counselor for onco patients... this episode has helped to help the patients and the caregivers the HOPE to cope up with the illness, treatment and the changes happening during the various stages of treatment. especially in coping with the emotions. thanks for the information. god bless u.

WhatIsThisAllAbout

4y↑1

because of the fast pace of the video which is totally understandable since it's a crash course, I would love to see the content of the video in text formats like an article or a consolidated book of ideas

Katie Willems

10y

I love these videos more and more! Guess my brain just loves being the centre of attention...

Eli

10y

Best Crash Course Psychology episode yet! Being a Tversky and Kahneman fangirl I might be biased though... I would have loved one entire episode of Prospect Theory even.

Lucas Oliveira

10y

I was waiting for this class ;).
Very important teachings in psychology here.

The Stammering Dunce

10y↑21

"We are great at fearing the wrong things."

The truth!

Cece

Very nice! I like this alot! Very good demonstration of cognitive psychology! I liked the guy also, he had a great personality and was funny.

PinkChucky15

10y

This was such an awesome video, it totally made my day :-)

OHM-968692

7y↑1

This was an excellent episode.

TeresaMcD

10y

My tiny nerdfighter kid asked, "what turned him into a doctor"? When he watched the hilarious animation for trial and error. Ha! I explained it was an anglerfish, and he laughed even harder. Love Hank, love science, love psych, and totally love my kiddo and his humor.

Jaqui Lethaby

Love this series so much I converted it to MP3s to listen to on my iPhone while I jog. Anyone else notice the 'angry swan squawk' on the definition slides this way? (2:31 is audible if you want to hear - turn up the volume). I thought I was experiencing a new exertion-related crazy condition so getting to the bottom of the mystery was a relief!

BobTasticable

10y↑11

So many funny lines this episode:
"Haters gon hate."
"We have space pictures!"
"Where's my fish?"

Marcelo Gutierrez

6y↑1

My professor nailed every concept in this video in today's lecture lol

alessandramacedo18

10y

I think that knowledge of how our brain screws up in specific ways should be taught to everybody in school and college, as part of the way people learn to think critically. Specially the bit about confirmation bias. Because a lot of times people think they are being entirely logical when in reality their past experiences have influenced them in a way that they don't think is important. I don't know...it seems like the type of education Vulcan kids would get haha

Linda

Hopefully this will help me with my exam today! Thanks crash course 😊

Florence

8y↑21

You severely underestimate your audience's nerdiness if you think they won't already know what a goddamn owlbear is.

Dawud G Delves

10y

A while ago I came with the notion that, in perspective, I am only as good as the worst thing I ever have ever done, or merely accused of. From what Hank has described, I guess it is true, in perspective of course.

Michael Ruggiero

8y↑841

Nope, my dear child that is not a bird. It's an owlbear.

Kingturboturtle DNOC

exactly

Gayatri Mehta

4y↑1

Oh! Cutest comment here😂✨🧡

Mariah Brown

5y↑6

Thank you! I am super glad I was not the only one who saw that instead of a general bird classification.

vernon daley

5y↑1

can I like this again?

Luna Stories

Yep, indeed.

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TheCircusSprite

10y

Most interesting Psychology episode yet.

Crystal Gong

10y

i love that crashcourse psychology is a thing <3 <3 <3 i took psych last year but i watch these anyways just cos i like psych/neuro so much

Carbon based life form

This was great and really enjoyable

Klein Diana

Love all of your videos please help a sister out and do a series on AP art history though!!

Steven Monday

is there anywhere with a pdf of all the crash course definitions these are great

Keith Gaughan

10y↑37

There are a good number of people in the world who don't ever show signs of cognition.

Danielle Pearce

10y

Gah! Crashcourse is amazing!! Thanks, Hank!

Viktoria Drabova

A super hilarious video helps me with my Uni research!!!

Cephas Tanlijie

10y

Could you make videos of different types of diagnostic assays - e.g. ELISA, EIA, OA...? I love yah vids!!! - You make things easier to understand.

Samantha Faye

10y

If you haven't already, I'd recommend watching the heuristics episode of Sexplanations! Additional information on the topic and how it relates to you every day. Very interesting, and another way to support Hank through subbable.

Hari-Krishna Koipallil

I love how many video game references are in here

I love Crash Course

Shriya Sridhara Maiya

9y↑203

"You are brilliant most of the times, but sometimes, you're just gonna look..stupid" xD

Oh, Hank xD

XanthoGrl

8y↑1

AAAAHH! Hank! My cognitive psychology professor is assigning us crash course videos every week! ITS SO GOOD

Gabriela Lopez

This subject is specially useful today for understanding my, and other people's reaction to the global COVID-19 situation. More specifically on minute 8:40

Chai Tyto

10y

I like to think that I've gotten pretty good at predicting the weather where I live since I've lived here my whole life and I know the signs of when it'll rain and when it'll snow and so on. I'm usually right, but that could just be me only remembering the times I was right...Maybe I should do an experiment!
Also, when you asked why smart people make stupid decisions I said aloud, "Because it's Monday, and I'm tired and sometimes you just have to forget to bring your music to choir practice."

Freakyfelinee

This reminds me of yesterday, I wanted to find a place and my landmark was a huge church. So while I was driving in the vicinity, I saw a church looming in the distance, and I tried to give it a try. I was SURE that I was in the right place, because I got confused due to the place being similar to the one I remembered, especially because of the particular way the pavement was. I walked around in hoping to find the place, but turns out I was very wrong.

iamnotanotter

10y

I have a question about the pine, crab, and sauce experiment thing you mentioned. The minute I heard your question I instantly thought "apple". Is this because of apple that you showed in the beginning? And if that's the case how does that work, because I've seen it happen and it's what I figured must've happened...but HOW does it work?

nadiact1000

10y↑15

Can we have a Hanklerfish option in the next Mario game? That was too adorable.

dewinthemorning

10y

Daniel Kahneman's book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" Is an excellent book! I am reading it at the moment.

Miranda

10y

The graphics are particularly excellent this week. Thanks thoughtbubble ;)

LOU-Music

10y

Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow" is a really good read

Winter's Babyy

52w

I’m good at thinking, understanding, and writing. But I’m terrible at communicating through speech because my brain would suddenly short circuit while I’m speaking. It’s beginning to scare me.

michelle chaban

Great video, cognition is such an interesting subject from #psychology . I like the expectancy violation theory.
______________________
Michelle Chaban
#EvanstonPsychologist
http://www.chicagoclinicaltherapist.com

Jay Nicole

4y↑4

I’m trying to study for AP exam by watching his videos 😂

Karan Bhullar

We got this!!!

Emma Jilesen

same lol

Nils Rohwer

10y

Hank in an anglerfish... Best part of the series up until now.

andybearchan

10y

I read Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman last month. I highly recommend it for anyone wanting to understand why it is that heuristics are so important and when and why they can fail.

Miranda H.

10y

I could've used this video a few months ago for my psychology class lol

Charliemae Benton

9y↑1

I am LOVING these videos!!!

Boulevard des Airs BDA

10y↑36

Great video, thanks !

Evie Spooner

8y↑232

'ACCIDENTALLY choking on a dumpling' in what circumstance would you PURPOSELY choke on a dumpling?

Malavika Ganesh

4y↑6

Glad you asked a question where the replies made my day! 🤣

JoshsNow

5y↑12

The replies on this are some of the best I have seen on a YT video 😂

Rachelle Hoepfer

5y↑6

When you hate everything I guess

Jestekin E

Some Guy

7y↑14

Nothing better to do.

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frollard

10y↑1

I love the use of memorable examples - I can NEVER find which section sryracha is supposed to be in. sometimes 'hot sauce section', sometimes 'mexican', sometimes 'asian', and sometimes inexplicably with the ketchup.

Chris Seltzer

10y

Normally I like John's CC videos better than Hanks but this time around Hank is killing it. Strong prefer the psychology videos to the Literature ones.

James Connolly

10y

Hank would probably have made a good high school teacher if he didn't do this. But this, I think, is better because you can reach a hell of a lot more people and the class is largely voluntary and interested.

C Brone-Hammer

10y↑1

Public schools use lots of methods in framing, especially in the conservative areas, like where I live. For example, in health class, they might say that while using condoms, 2 out of 100 girls got pregnant, instead of saying that condoms are the most effective contraceptive and they work 98% of the time. It's scary for a lot of people, the way they do that.

Paige Hall

9y↑1

It's amazing how the way we word things can determine how we think about a situation .

TheWizardTimelord

9y↑4

pineapples are called pineapples because in the past in the early english language all fruits were just called differend kinds of apples, like oranges were called applesin. anyway pineapple look like a half fruit half pinecone or piney thing and thats why they were named pineapples, because when they started renaming them like the orange when that became a word for a colour and it wasn't just called yellowred, pineapple just didn't have a better name

Lapis Goblin

9y↑1

In this episode of crash course psychology, hank once again makes a dungeons and dragons reference!

ImSlinqy

This guy is a talking essay. I love him.

Cosmos Fitzpatrick

I found this episode especially funny. I chuckled, multiple times...

MO OH Skate

You crack me up. I really enjoy watching your videos.

craziecreativestuff

10y

Can you do one on the psychology of stress

SocraTetris

9y↑18

That's not what, "I think, therefore I am" means.
Because we have reason to doubt the accuracy of any/all perception, the only thing we can be sure of is that we are things that think (even if everything is wrong). That was the temporary, existential conclusion of Descartes' doubt.

Kyle Wolf

5y↑4

Yeah, it's often misunderstood.

It is more readily intelligible as something SEEMS to be happening and even if everything else is an illusion, that aspect of seeming is the only thing one can be entirely sure about. I experience things, I know that for sure. As for everything else, I can't be absolutely certain.

Mae Frances

I can definitely relate to the nail on the board situation.

Todd Vines

10y

This explains a time when in year 6 there was a problem that no one could do and a flash of thought made me do it in ten seconds and when they asked how I did it I couldn't answer and just pointed at my workings out and the still didn't understand it because the method I used was not know by any of them.

Ray Pelser

please can you a video on ADHD/ADD? (with may be a splash of sensory processing problems and some of the other offshoot or other problems associated with ADD/ADHD)

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