The definition of caveman logic according the Caveman Logic by Hank Davis is a reference of a more superstitious and primitive part of our mentality (Davis, 2009 p.12). Therefore, I want to talk about my own case of caveman logic mentality that happened back in 2012 in Boston on April 15. In addition, I also want to talk about the cognitive error that occurred. Therefore, I can analyze them in the following essay. On that day two bombs went off around the finish line of the Boston Marathon. I was a block away from the first bomb. The first thing that came to my mind was that something was going to happen and kill me. It was that fear, therefore the cognitive error, which kept me stay grounded and made sense of what was going around the radius
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On that day, I was a volunteer to help with the runners after they finish running the marathon. And I was standing a block away from the finish line waiting for the next runner to come in. While I was waiting, a huge explosion sound burst out into the atmosphere; I could not recognized what had just happened at first. All I saw was people running around screaming meanwhile trying to call on their cellphones. According to Davis, the human mind is an illusion generator, and that from time to time we are going to see or hear things that are simply not there (Davis, 2009 p.27). However, this is not the case for all circumstances. In the case of the Boston Marathon bombing, my mind did produced false positive images that ran though in my brain. Even though there were only two bomb that were there and went off, my mind showed me that there were more inside the hotels. My brain was trying to make sense of what was registered through my sensory organs. According to the book Caveman Logic, our mind may simply accept any form of delivery of important event, in both positive and negative ways (Davis, 2009, p.55). However, my mentality also created cognitive error by overgeneralizing the situation. It was telling me that bad things were going to happen again and again throughout the rest of the
On that day, I was a volunteer to help with the runners after they finish running the marathon. And I was standing a block away from the finish line waiting for the next runner to come in. While I was waiting, a huge explosion sound burst out into the atmosphere; I could not recognized what had just happened at first. All I saw was people running around screaming meanwhile trying to call on their cellphones. According to Davis, the human mind is an illusion generator, and that from time to time we are going to see or hear things that are simply not there (Davis, 2009 p.27). However, this is not the case for all circumstances. In the case of the Boston Marathon bombing, my mind did produced false positive images that ran though in my brain. Even though there were only two bomb that were there and went off, my mind showed me that there were more inside the hotels. My brain was trying to make sense of what was registered through my sensory organs. According to the book Caveman Logic, our mind may simply accept any form of delivery of important event, in both positive and negative ways (Davis, 2009, p.55). However, my mentality also created cognitive error by overgeneralizing the situation. It was telling me that bad things were going to happen again and again throughout the rest of the