Critical Thinking

CHIPMUNK on Apr 18, 2011

Tags: Critical Thinking, Experience, Life, power of the mind, questions, ways to thinking, Your Life

What you often think about.

These are some of what an individual has experienced, and still going through

During childhood and early adolescence, did your parents periodically admonish you to straighten your posture and to avoid slouching?

Based on what you have just learned about posture and attitudes, is there any wisdom in such admonishments? How might the manner in which parents try to correct slouching destroy these possible benefits?

What precautions do you think social psychologists should take to ensure that people who participate in their research will not be harmed?

Should social psychologists be allowed to study people without their consent?

If you were a member of your college’s institutional review board and a research proposal similar to the Milgram obedience study was submitted for approval. What questions would you ask to determine its risk or benefit ratio? Based on your assessment would you approve this study?

Spend a few minutes considering how self-regulation failure contributes to domestic violence, when would you think a parent or a spouse be the most likely to harm someone due to losing control of their emotions?

Your self-esteem will often be threatened when you compare yourself with those superior to you. However, a view of this indicates that upward comparison can sometimes lead to higher self-esteem.

How do you think this particular self- enhancement effect will occur?

You can experience life with what is in front of you

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Dreamy777 on Apr 18, 2011
great one I like it
kanivel on Apr 18, 2011
Thought provoking! Good share.
Angelgirlpj on Apr 18, 2011
makes a person think about they are saying or have said.
thresiapaulose on Apr 18, 2011
Comparison most of the times is negative. Good, CHIPMUNK.
LoveDoctor on Apr 18, 2011
No, I don’t believe psychologists should study people without their consent. When a spouse or partner abuses the other verbally, physically and or uses threats if they decide to leave them. I don’t agree that comparison would lead to higher self esteem. It might make you work harder toward achieving your goals.
vickylass on Apr 18, 2011
In my opinion self esteem comes when one is appreciated from other people, be it friends, relatives or even our bosses. Anyway, good and thought provoking article. Thanks for sharing.
SharifaMcFarlane on Apr 18, 2011
If a person is in an abusive situation, they have to choose what is best for them, and not what for the abuser to correct their own behaviour,
Thespeakman on Apr 18, 2011
Makes you think
Jerry Bradford aka Jerry Atrixx on Apr 18, 2011
there is something to be said about our plausible relationship with reasonable thinking and the use of deductive processes put to use when making decisions.
elnavann on Apr 18, 2011
You are asking a lot of difficult questions – some of which can be the subject of a research project.

I think thequestion about people being studied – whether they are harmed, and whether they give consent – is becoming more and more important. Ethics should be seen as the higher value – this makes some research projects more difficult of course
d1dezire on Apr 18, 2011
comparison could work either way- make you try to become a better person or make you shrink into yourself and lose confidence in yourself, usually the second
Audrey Howitt on Apr 18, 2011
I think you are asking a lot of very complex questions within this small article. Each one of these questions could generate an article in and of themselves.
AshleyApathy on Apr 19, 2011
interesting….
adicodrean1967 on Apr 19, 2011
interesting post

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