PSYC 2018H Lecture 1: Sept 16th - Intro to Critical Thinking
19 Sep 2015
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Sona up to 4. 25% bonus marks -or- alternate assignment. Critical thinking is reflective thinking involving the evaluation of evidence relevant to a claim so that a sound conclusion can be drawn from the evidence . Developing a belief before you have evidence to prove a belief: reason + systematically gathered data = useful knowledge. The process of learning things through direct observation or experience, and reflection on those experience (goodwin & goodwin, 2013, p. 7) : strengths, learn from experience, weaknesses, different people have different experience, senses deceive us, weaknesses: cognitive bias, belief perseverance. Motivated by a desire to be certain about ones knowledge, it is a tendency to hold on doggedly to a belief, even in the face of evidence that would convince most people the belief is false : confirmation bias. A tendency to search out a pay special attention to information that supports ones belief while ignoring information that contradicts them .
