Nosal, Czesław S.2014-03-072014-03-072012Neodidagmata nr 33/34, 2012, ss. 77-92978-83-232-2424-20077-653Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/10593/10284The few cognitive illusions and biases influences by contemporary informational media are the main topic of this article. These tendencies are not new, because the old solutions of our species as writing and printing also significantly change the styles of mental activity. Among the contemporary cognitive biases attention is mentioned in this article on the changes of knowledge structure, difficulties in critical thinking, metacognition and deep of processing. In general, the influence of new informational technologies on human minds can be described by increasing hot over cool processing”, as both of them heve been defined in the context of McLuhan’s theory of media.plArtykuł