PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Critical Thinking

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jaime Palmer

Document Summary

Quizzes: through i-clicker: 18%: top 6/7 into consideration for grade. Research participation visit the website (bsased in burnaby) & online studies. No need to bring books to class. Critical thinking objective judgements on the basis of well-suported reasons and evidence rather than emotion or anecdote (stories/rumors) exlpanations. Psychology vs psychobabble (self help, no data to prove) Step 5: be objective avoid emotional thinking and reasoning. Step 6: don"t oversimplify don"t draw simple conclusions. Step 7: be open-minded consider the possibility of other.