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Critical Thinking section of Skeptic's Dictionary

Alan Bensley provides teaching tips, from his experience and scientific research, on teaching critical thinking in the classroom.

This section of the site is dedicated to teaching ideas and student support for the Sociocultural level of analysis. Attribution skits Critically thinking about compliance techniques Critically thinking about culture Critically thinking about the SCLOA Explaining Abu Ghraib Evaluating the Stanford Prison Study Gender differences content analysis Group decision making

Helpful for encouraging and developing critical thinking skills in our students.

Thank you sooo much for this! Most helpful!! :)

Interesting ideas that can help us in teaching critical thinking.

This is a very good Ted Talk that can be shown introducing the topic of Memories in CLOA. Her talk covers both her studies Loftus and Palmer's (1974) study of eyewitness testimony and the more recent one The formation of False Memories. She also talks about the challenges associated with conducting studies

It just a great ted talk on eyewitness memory by Elizabeth Loftus. It is especially helpful when teaching eyewitness memory in CLOA and it also tap into ethical issues that can stimulate students to think critically.

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