PSYC 217 Lecture 1: Week 1 Lecture Notes
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Generate example illustrating the limits of relying on folk wisdom/common sense, authority, intuition, experience, and logic. Explain how the scienti c method relates to critical thinking. Pros: more quickly and easily access knowledge. Allows us to understand values that are important to us. Subject to prejudices and misconceptions: authority - knowledge based on information from credible other ex: celebrities in ads. Pros: minimizes need to acquire knowledge on our own. Many people of authority have legitimate credentials to be considered authority . Cons: authorities may be wrong, o ruse intuition, experience, or folk wisdom. Authority may be due to perceived cues of credibility (e. g. attractiveness, popularity: common sense/ folk wisdom - appealing to what on expects everyone else to know. Pros: there is an explanation for every situation. A short, mutually understood way of communicating more complicated idea. Cannot be refuted or falsi ed: experience - relying on personal experience to make decisions.
