Quiz #2 Flashcards
What was the Milgram experiment and what did it consist of?
The Milgram experiment was a social experiment conducted by psychologist Stanley Milgram between 1960-1963. Participants were separated into two groups: the “learner” and the “teachers.” The teachers asked the learner a question; if the question was answered wrong, the teachers were told to electrify the learner with shocks that delivered between 15 to 450 volts.
The U.S. Navy conducted another social experiment a year later.
1) What year was this experiment conducted?
2) What was the psychologist’s name?
3) What did the experiment consist of?
4) Where was it held?
1) 1971.
2) Philip Zimbardo
3) Participants were split into two groups: the first group was made up of “prisoners,” the other of “security guards.” After awhile, one-third of the security guards began to mistreat the prisoners as if they were in a real prison.
4) Stanley University
What is critical thinking?
A collection of skills we use every day that are necessary for our full intellectual and personal development
Definition: The study of the methods and principles used to distinguish correct or good arguments from poor arguments
Term: logic
____ is a belief based solely on personal feelings rather than on reason or facts
Opinion
Cognitive development is the process of…
Acquiring advanced thinking and problem-solving skills from infancy through adulthood
Who was one of the first to study college students’ cognitive development?
William Perry, Jr.
How many developmental positions are there? Which are they?
Dualism (stage 1), relativism (stage 2), and commitment (stage 3).
Method of doubt
A method of critical analysis in which we put aside our preconceived ideas and beliefs and begin from a position of skepticism
Method of belief
A method of critical analysis in which we suspend our doubts and biases and remain genuinely open to what people with opposing views are saying.
A form of government in which the highest power in the state is invested in the people and exercised directly by them or, as is generally the case in modern democracies, by their elected officials.
Democracy
What does the three-tier model of thinking consist of?
1) Experience: first level; includes firsthand experience as well as information or empirical facts that we receive from other sources.
2) Interpretation: second level; involves trying to make sense of our experiences.
3) Analysis: third level; requires that we raise our level of thinking and critically examine our interpretations of an experience, refusing to accept either narrow interpretations of an experience or interpretations that are too broad.
