Critical Thinking and Psychology Links

Longview Community College, Lee's Summit, Missouri

Critical Thinking
Across the
Curriculum Project

Critical Thinking and Psychology Links:

Contributed by Matthew Westra, Andrew Geoheagan and Luis Flores, Longview Psychology Department

Exercises for promoting Critical Thinking in Psychology: Andrew Geoghegan

Exercises which require the use of the core concepts:

Inference Vs. Observation
Operational Definitions
Correlation - moving from a correlation to a cause
Jumping to Conclusions
Faulty Thinking - common fallacies which appear in Psychology
Thinking Creatively - exercises to promote creative thinking.

Common Sense and Psychology: Matthew Westra
The notion of "Common Sense" in Psychology

Introduction to the reliance on the notion of "Common Sense" in Psychology:
The "Common Sense" test
Fallacies leading to the Assumption of "Common Sense"

Participate in an experiment: Luis Flores

Try our experiment in First Impressions - see how a person's looks can affect our judgements. The images will be changed periodically and the data collected from our interactive form will be compiled and made available to those instructors who request it. Instructors who wish to see the data from their classes or all the data should contact Luis Flores at either:

Longview Community College, 500 SW Longiew Rd. Lee's Summit, MO, USA 64081.
flores@longview.cc.mo.us

Books, Articles and Bibliographies:

Annotated bibliography of books about skepticism, psychology, and philosophy:

http://www.csicop.org/bibliography/

Interview with cult deprogrammer Rick Ross on mind control.

http://apocalypse.berkshire.net/~ifas/wa/rickross.html

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Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum Project
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Last modified: 03/02/04

Critical Thinking and Psychology Links:

Exercises for promoting Critical Thinking in Psychology: Andrew Geoghegan

Common Sense and Psychology: Matthew Westra The notion of "Common Sense" in Psychology

Participate in an experiment: Luis Flores

Books, Articles and Bibliographies:

Common Sense and Psychology: Matthew Westra
The notion of "Common Sense" in Psychology