7. THEN: Do an outline for your essay and choose what you feel are 4 main ideas that the authors present in their book and a brief explanation for each idea, explaining their significance to your essay. Outline:- 1) Making of an Introduction to the chapter 2) Making a strong Thesis Statement 3) Collecting the main and supportive ideas for the first body paragraph - Illusion of Attention 4) Considering the examples from the book for supporting the illusion of Attention 5) Collecting the main and supportive ideas for the second body paragraph- Illusion of Memory 6) Considering the examples from the book for supporting the illusion of Memory 7) Conclusion with restating the thesis statements and summarizing the body paragraphs. 4 Main Ideas 1) The …show more content…
The illusions of memory usually comes from our assumptions. Memory depends on what actually happened on how we make sense of what happened. Our memory has some limits. People remember only few things which they feel important. Whenever we try to recall a memory, we collect the details we do remember with our expectations for what we should remember. 3) The illusion of Confidence: - The illusion of confidence includes the high confidence and ego which often makes us blind which in turn we are not able to see the reality and our limits as individuals. This illusion often makes us think we are currently better than we will ever be. People sometimes thinks that they are better than the other. But, they see the reality, and become aware of the information, then their ego gets disappear. People need to maintain their confidence and balance between their low and high confidence level. 4) The illusion of Knowledge: - The illusion of knowledge arises when people think they know more than they actually do. When it comes to prediction people overestimate their knowledge and thinks that they know everything but in actual they don’t. This is the influence of illusion of knowledge on the people. We often mistake our knowledge. This illusion of knowledge often creates misunderstandings among people. Overestimating is also the cause of this