Dr. Fred Halper
Psychology 101 Psychobabble & Biobunk Assignment
PSYCHOBABBLE AND BIOBUNK (3RD Edition) This booklet contains 21 articles about issues presented in the news media. Please choose one of the 21 articles about issues in the news contained in the booklet as the basis for a 3 page word processed reaction paper in which you discuss how any four (4) if the eight essential guidelines to critical thinking can be applied to the topic involved in the article you have chosen.
If your last name begins with the letters A to I, please choose an article from 1 — 7 If your last name begins with the letters J to 0, please choose an article from 8-14 If your last name begins with the letters P to Z, please choose an article from 15-21
The purpose is to encourage a full range of topics that students will choose.
The ei ht uidelines for critical thinkin listed in the textbook are:
-ask questions, be willing to wonder -define your terms -examine the evidence -analyze assumptions and biases -avoid emotional reasoning -don’t oversimplify -consider other explanations -tolerate uncertainty
A detailed analysis of each of these 8 guidelines exist throughout the text, are discussed in some detail in Chapter 1, and summarized in the front flap of the Wade, Tavris, Garry book.
Copies of Psychobabble & Biobunk (3e) are available by accessing the MLK Library computer