All you need for the exam is something to write with (pen or pencil is fine). I will provide you with all the necessary paper.
Part I: Fill-in-the-Blank. You should know the definitions of the following terms:
- Logic
- Critical Thinking
- Metaphysics
- Epistemology
- Axiology
- Science
- Pseudoscience
- Neuropsychological Humility
- Metacognition
- Scientific Skepticism
- False Memory Syndrome
- Inattentional Blindness
- Apophenia
- Proposition
- Argument
- Premise
- Conclusion
- Deductive
- Inductive
- Valid
- Invalid
- Sound
- Not Sound
- Strong
- Weak
- Cogent
- Not Cogent
Part II: Short Answers. You should be able to explain the following concepts: - The core tools and values that characterize the methodology of scientific skepticism
- The different types of memory
- The five ways in which we modify and alter memories
- The major issues with the reliability of memory and perception
- Pareidolia, and why it is significant for skeptics
- Hyperactive Agency Detection, and why it is significant for skeptics
- Hypnagogia, and why it is significant for skeptics
- The Ideomotor effect, and why it is significant for skeptics
Part III: Short Essay. You will write a short essay in which you apply the tools and concepts discussed so far in class to a pseudoscience. The particular pseudoscience will be described on the exam in the prompt for the essay question. |
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