101184 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Preposition And Postposition, Behaviorism, Extraversion And Introversion

• School: UWS
• Department: University of Western Sydney
• Course: 101184
• Professor: Kell Tremayne

Document Summary

To understand: what critical thinking is, the barriers to critical thinking and the importance avoiding them, the basics of argument and their evaluation, the place of critical thinking in science, the importance of critical thinking in psychology. Barriers to critical thinking: age, memory, attention. Avoidable barriers to critical thinking: based in motivational and emotional processes. Self-serving bias: e. g. conformation bias: the psychological preposition to listen to information that agrees with ones beliefs and values and to ignore or distort information that disagrees with them. Supporting statements supported statement = conclusion: can be identified by signal words such as thus, therefore, hence. Supporting statements = premises: can be identified by signal words such as "since", "because, given that. Supported statement = conclusion: can be identified by signal words such as thus, therefore, hence. The two key argument structures are: deductive. In a deductive argument structure: the conclusion is entailed (brought out) by the premises. If a then b: a, therefore b.