PSYC100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Psychological Science, Human Behavior, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
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The use of critical thinking skills improves how people think. Amiable skepticism, an important element of science, requires a careful examination of how well evidence supports a conclusion. Using critical thinking skills and understanding the methods of psychological science are important for evaluating research reported in popular media. People engage in common errors in thinking, which probably evolved as a way to quickly categorize information to promote rapid decision making. However these errors often result in faulty conclusions. Using psychological reasoning can help people overcome these errors and biases in thinking. Using psychological reasoning: failing to see our own. Inadequacies: why are people unaware of their weaknesses. Dualist notions about the separation of the brain and the mind have. Dualist notions about the separation of the brain and the mind have been replaced with the idea that the (physical) brain enables the mind. Psychology"s intellectual history dates back thousands of years.