Psychology

Psychology

Critical thinking in psychological science

Critical thinking is to analyze and evaluate the structure and consistency of reasoning, particularly opinions and statements that people accept as true in the context of everyday life. Such assessment can be based on observation, experience, reasoning or the scientific method (Myers, 1998). Critical thinking is based on intellectual values that seek to go beyond the impressions and opinions of individuals, and therefore requires clarity, accuracy, precision, and equity evidence. Therefore this has a new evaluative and analytical side. Although the logic used, tries to overcome the formal aspect of this in order to understand and evaluate the arguments in context and provide intellectual tools to distinguish reasonable than unreasonable, the true than the false (Myers, 1998).

Intuition and common sense, the scientific method, description, correlation, and experimentation

Many people find "psychology" of great interest because they are curious about other people and because they hope to heal with psychological knowledge their own life suffering. They listen to radio broadcasts on psychological topics, read articles about the powers of the soul, attend seminars, engage in hypnosis for smoking cessation, and devour self-help books on the meaning of dreams, the path to ecstatic love, or on how to achieve personal happiness (Myers, 1998). To the degree that we are on the scientific approach to psychology own making after and the underlying psychological principles in our everyday lives, and integrate thinking, we are perceptive and imaginative, and think smarter. Two phenomena -- the distortion effect by hindsight (hindsight bias) and the overestimation of our judgment -- make clear why we cannot only rely on intuition and common sense (Myers, 1998). Other people believe in the intuitive skills of people and look with contempt to one oriented to science. Our everyday thinking comes with a limit of common sense, but that is with the general human tendency to trust too much in one's own critical abilities (Myers, 1998).

Historical roots of psychology as a science

The scientific psychologists consider behavior with curious skepticism. The practical implementation of this scientific attitude requires not only skepticism, but also modesty, because we may have our own ideas recycling. The skills of working after scientifically psychologists are their knowledge of the scientific methods and their consistent implementation. The limits of intuition and common sense although we are as intelligent in some areas as the most intelligent computer, can also mislead us by our intuition. ...