Question

in regaurds to critical thinking in the psychology field, why do you think its essential in how we understand human behavior and the psychological idealogy?

Answer 1

Critical Thinking : The process of thinking in all possible ways by considering clear cut information without any cognitive bias is called critical thinking. Critical thinking allows only objective perspectives and it doesn't allow subjective perspective. It is free from cognitive biases like confirmation bias, hind sight bias, expectancy effect etc.,

Why do you think its essential in how we understand human behavior and the psychological ideology?

Human behavior is combination of many factors. All biological factors, experiences, consequences, conditioning, reactivity, cognitive abilities, free will, subconscious etc., will effects our behavior outcome. While analyzing a human behavior we should consider all these types of factors otherwise we may draw false conclusions. To consider all these factors we should use critical thinking.

There are many psychological ideologies in psychology history those are classical conditioning, operant conditioning, social learning theory, psycho analysis theory,Cognitive development theory, introspection etc., Each and every ideology has strengths and flaws. To understand those ideologies without error we should use critical thinking. Critical thinking only introduced many new theories in psychology we are using in now a days.

In this way Critical thinking is essential in understanding human behavior and psychological ideologies.