A book by Michael Shermer entitled "Why People Believe Weird Things" might give you some good ideas. In addition to his own experiences with Holocaust deniers and creationists, he goes into why people's reasoning heuristics and cognitive biases will lead them into critical thinking errors.
Robin
"Annette Taylor, Ph. D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Annette Taylor, Ph. D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I call on collective Tipster minds:
I will be teaching a section of critical thinking this summer in our
Guadalajara program. Because the critical thinking course usually counts as an
upper division elective but does not satisfy a specific graduation requirement
it is sometimes hard to sell for summer enrollment.
After some discussion with my chair we decided that I would modify the course
sufficiently to "fit" with a cognitive requirement.
While I have some ideas on how I can do this, I'd appreciate any other advice
tipsters might have.
I will be using the Stanovich text as the primary text. There are some obvious
elements of fit between problem solving/decision making and critial thinking,
which Stanovich touches on.
I'm looking for other areas of overlap.
Thanks
Annette
Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D.
Department of Psychology
University of San Diego
5998 Alcala Park
San Diego, CA 92110
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