Essay On Confirmation Bias

In addition, from 1988 to 2004, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in northern Uganda abducted youth as recruits to their guerilla force. More than 60,000 child soldiers are estimated to have been abducted by the LRA, taken from one day to ten years. Many children were taken from their homes, forced to become child soldiers against their will. If 60,000 child soldiers were abducted by the LRA, there are 60,000 people suffering because of the battle in Uganda.

Confirmation bias: the tendency to seek out information that reaffirms past choices and to discount information that contradicts past judgments.

These Children are being exploited from their families and then taking into custody. Human service reports that children are being brutally recruitment, by being taken away and often being harassed by older people. This is a society impact, this is a big problem, for the global impact, which can work together to reintegrate, child soldiers back to society to make them, a productive individuals. All around the world every child has dream of going to school and learning about everything, but in some states that's not the case they are compelled to become instruments of war kill, and to be killed. Child soldiers are being forced to give violent expression towards adults, they are often thought that adults are the main enemy and they are always thought that they are alone in this

Another thing that the article Armed & Underage stated that many groups use girls as cooks and messengers. Girls are sometimes sexually abused as well. This shows that these kids are not around positive examples and this should not be normal for any child. They already go through enough with the war and it would be so terrible for them to be treated as criminals. You may say that the parents decide and they may discuss it with their kids but Armed & Underage told us that Kids are sold by parents to get money for food and other essentials that are necessary for living a healthy life, this evidence supports the fact that parents do it out of survival and not because that’s what they think is

In the article “Child Soldiers: If not Prosecution, Then What?” written in December 2006 through February 2007. The author writes that some children are kidnapped by military officers and then the children are brainwashed into doing very cruel things. The thing is is that they are kidnapped and then brainwashed to do these horrible

Cognitive dissonance is defined by Gilovich et all’s textbook as “ A theory that maintains the inconsistencies among a person’s thoughts, sentiments, and actions create an aversive emotional state (dissonance) that leads to efforts to restore consistency”. While this definition is true it also quite confusing. To understand this first the words that make up the term need to be understood. Cognition is a mental action, it involves gaining knowledge and understanding through use of thoughts, senses, and experiences. This cognition can produce a perception, sensation, notion, or intuition. Dissonance is simply a discrepancy among two things. In the case of cognitive dissonance this discrepancy is between any two of the following; an idea,

The article Armed & Underage it helps verify, “His bed is a fly-covered mattress that he shares with two other child soldiers... In blown-out buildings, children load bullets twice the size of their fingers.” This has proven that children are in horrible living conditions and shouldn’t be consider perpetrators. This also explains how these children homes are terribly conditioned due to these explosives. Also, these kids seem to live as if they were homeless when children shouldn’t have to because they’re just children. Being a child soldier really affects their lives because these children aren’t properly educated, the way they should be. The only way they’re simply taught is to kill people and involved with drug. It has been proven that these children have never been to a school or school playground. This shows that these children don’t have it very easy growing up while being a child soldier. These children are victims because once they’re enforced or enlisted with the army they are not able to leave. Most of these children have become orphaned because their family is dead from the brutal wars they’ve caused, but growing up also threatens their life because they’re diagnosed with physiological trauma and seriously injured or permanently at a very young age because of their commanders allowing them to fight in brutal wars. If they were to leave there wouldn’t have no one or they would be

A cognitive bias in which people will have the tendency to believe that a statement, idea, or information is accurate if it is either positive, meaningful, or if it’s personally addressed to them. Many people believe in biorhythms, horoscopes iridology, cold reading, and tarot cards because they appear to have the solution to their problems which is meaningful. In addition, many mediums and palm readers depend on subjective validation because it is easy to convince others that they are linked to unrelated events. (Pages 120, 122-123).

Some kids are even getting taken from their home and from where they play, like playgrounds and soccer fields. To the young ones, those places are their safe havens and where most of them spend their time. As these kids are taken, they have no say so in what’s going on. Often times, the kids either don’t fight back and train to become a solider or their family and their lives are on the line. Essentially meaning that the groups the kids are being stolen by threaten to kill you and your family. Others claim that these kids are volunteers and they have the choice to join. Others may also say that as they grow older, the begin to enjoy what they are doing but many forget that these kids are being bribed and drugged at a very young

Confirmation bias is a tendency of people to prefer information that reinforces a thought or believe that they have. People demonstrate this bias when they retain information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way. The effect is stronger for emotional issues and for deeply rooted beliefs. (Science Daily)

Confirmation Bias: only explore information that supports our ideas Hindsight Bias: reporting untruthfully that we projected an outcome Availability Heuristic: calculating possibilities grounded on ease of recall Base-Rate Fallacy: disregarding information about universal principles Representativeness Heuristic: making decisions grounded on stereotypes

Confirmation bias occurs from the direct influence of desire on beliefs. When people would like a certain idea/concept to be true, they end up believing it to be true. People tend to be motivated by wishful thinking. This error leads the individual to stop gathering information when the evidence gathered so far confirms the views (prejudices) one would like to be true (Heshmat, 2015). Therefore, is very important for people to use their critical thinking skills. Good critical thinking skills required that we evaluate evidence thoroughly and be aware of social and cognitive errors in our thinking to effectively evaluate any given situation. And avoid jumping to a conclusion or acting quickly based on preconceived ideas (Boss,

For example in the article Kurdish Forces Violating Child Soldier Band it states, “ Human Rights Watch documented cases over the past year of children under 18 joining and fighting…” This is showing that kids are joining these groups on their own. Another example from the article ,by Jo Becker, Advocacy Director, Children's Rights Division and Rachel Stohl, senior associate with the Stimson Center, “In South Sudan, child recruitment spiked sharply last year, with estimates that 12,000 children were fighting with both government and non-state armed groups.” This is showing that mass amounts of children are being recruited to fight in a war that they don’t have to be in. Finally in the article Scott Gates, Simon Reich it says, “Accounts from the field tell of soldiers who are near free to. 5/5 While some might argue that child soldiers should be granted amnesty and say that their commanders made them do this. But they forget that in the text it says they willingly came to the army camps. No one made them go there, they did. They chose to listen to their commanders and let them rule their

Child soldiers have been used all over the world throughout history; even today, things have not changed in countries in East Africa. Ugandan children are still being recruited to fight the wars of adults. In 2012, there was a viral movement to bring awareness of the child soldiers under Joseph Kony’s command. The phrase “Kony 2012” was plastered all over various social media outlets by an organization named Invisible Children, or IC for short (Karlin 256). Kony 2012 was ignited from a short video centered on Kony’s army called the Lord’s Resistance Army, also known as the LRA, which consisted mostly of kidnapped children (Gould 207). The use of child soldiers is not just reduced to the LRA. Kids are being brought to arm all over Uganda; it is most common in Northern Uganda. Countless children have been forced to do things way beyond their years, for a fight that isn’t theirs. The effects of the experiences on child soldiers are widespread as well as deeply rooted.

From 1988 to 2004 the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in northern Uganda abducted youth as recruits to their guerilla force. More than 60,000 child soldiers are estimated to have been abducted by the LRA,