Out of everything we learned in this course, the stuff that sticks in my head the best is the basic scientific method concepts. I have been able to apply these to daily life everywhere I go. This includes noticing pseudoscientific claims in stores and on tv. I am a PSEO student, and in my Junior English class we learned about rhetorical strategies, I was able to connect a lot of these with the terms from psychology like falsifiability and ruling out rival hypotheses. I learned so much from this course that I will be able to take with me for the rest of my life. It was a really good experience and I met a lot of great people!
What I will remember not to forget
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I agree 100 percent. I wrote about this too, and I thought I would be the only one, but I'm glad someone else agrees! I use them in everyday life too, especially the correlation vs. causation principle. I never thought about the pseudoscience aspect to it, but that is also very true and a very good thought! I might be biased because i wrote about it too, but very good entry.
I agree, especially when it come to those iffy advertisements. I was able to know that they were not being 100% truthful but the chapter on extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence really solidified those notions.
i agree that the focus on scientific method has really helped many students including myself look at the world with a more critical eye. in the long run it's a really good thing that we have all acquired this skill, since we can all use it up until our deaths.
One interesting thing about virtually any topic in school, is it is applicable to many other topics. Just like you were able to apply this psychology to different literary methods, you can also match up social psychology with history, or logic with mathematics, or even basic psychology to biology, or even vice versa when discussing brain cells and anatomy. It really is so interesting when you realize that they aren't all individual subjects, they all have overlap onto each other!
I totally agree. I can't help but identify deficiencies in the concepts of scientific methods while watching the news or reading articles in magazines. It's amazing how poorly some of the claims that the news or magazines make without any real support.