Ep 183: Critical Thinking - Important? Yes. But Can We Teach It? Well....
Why does it concern psychologists that the Texas GOP platform recently opposed the teaching of critical thinking?\xa0 Most of us have been told since we were very young that critical thinking is very important.\xa0 Psychologists certainly agree and a lot of time spent in most psychology classes is spent learning how to think critically.\xa0 Why is it such a central part of our classes?\xa0 And here's a kicker: it might be a lot harder to teach it than we had hoped.\xa0 Find out why critical thinking is so central to psychology.\xa0 Sounds kinda dry?\xa0 I think you'll find this a lot of fun (in a mental kind of way\u2026).