Critical thinking in

psychology

Dr Omar Almodayfer
 Objectives

 Be aware about the need for psychological

sciences.
 Be aware about hindsight bias and
overconfidence bias.
 Be able to think critically using psychological
sciences.
 Do we need
psychology as a
?science
What do you think?
We know it by nature
why should we study
?it
?
 :Imagine

If you fold a paper on its self 100 times,

roughly how thick will it be?
 ?What about

 Intuition.
 Common sense.
 When you recall experience you recall parts
of it and not all of it.
The naked intellect is an
extraordinary inaccurate
instrument
 Exercise

2 groups activity
Life is lived forward
but understood
backward
 ?True or False

1. Lie detection test often lies.

2. If you want to teach a habit that persist,
reward the desired behavior every time and
not intermittently.
3. Most 1 year old infants recognize their own
reflection in a mirror.
 Hindsight Bias

I knew it will happen

I knew it all along phenomenon
 Hindsight bias

The tendency t believe, after learning an

outcome, that one would have foreseen
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du/reese/monty/monty
.htm
 Arrange the following letters to
produce words
 Wreat
 Etryn.
 :Answer the following

 How many bad drivers are in the streets of

Riyadh?
 British experts

 The telephone may be appropriate for our

American cousin's, but not here, because we
have adequate supply of messenger boys.
 Overconfidence

It a well known global human being

phenomenon in………
So science is
needed