PSY312H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Prentice Hall, Cerebral Cortex, Grater
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Perry"s theory: epistemic cognition: epistemic means of or about knowledge , epistemic cognition refers o our reflections on how we arrived at facts, beliefs, and ideas. Younger students regarded knowledge as made up of separate units (beliefs and propositions), whose truth could be determined by comparing them to objective strandards wrong, good and bad, we and they. Dualistic thinking: dividing information, values, and authority into right and. Ex: college freshman stated, when i went to my first lecture, what the o man said was just like god"s word. I believed everything because he is a professor . Relativistic thinking: viewing all knowledge as embedded in a framework of. The relativistic thinker is acutely aware that each person, in arriving at a thought o position, creates his own truth . The most mature individuals progress to commitment with relativistic thinking. Instead of choosing between opposite views, they try to formulate a more o satisfying perspective that synthesizes contradictions.
