PSY 308 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Telepathy, Blind Experiment, Critical Thinking

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 308
• Professor: Benjamin Dyson

Document Summary

Understand the course structure, assessment structure and expectations during class time. Psy308 will involve examining the adaptive and maladaptive cognitions within humans, requiring lots of in-class thinking. Prepare yourself for critical thinking and the characteristics of such thought. Critical thinking will be a domain-general tool for your future, and involve unpacking, evaluating and thinking round arguments. Unpack the issues surrounding the two controversial topics of alternative medicine and telepathy. Treatment must be adequately compared to control conditions, alternative hypotheses must be considered. Began to appreciate some critical features of research design and how evidence-based research may be consolidated. Placebo-control, double blind and randomization are hallmarks of good design, meta-analyses provide a way to consolidate data. How we know what isn. t so: the fallibility of human reason in everyday life (pp. Identify some of the characteristics that preclude the direct study of alternative health care practices.