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May 08, 2025
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PSY-502 Critical Thinking in Clinical Psychology4 semester credits
Enhances critical thinking skills related to issues in the field of clinical psychology.
Pre-requisites: PSY-501 is a required co-requisite if not already completed.
Delivery Method: Distance/Electronically Mediated
Grading Default: Letter
Note: This course may be waived if the student scored a 5.0 or higher on the analytical writing portion of the GRE within the past 5 years; or earned a PhD in any subject area from an accredited U.S. university within the past 10 years.
Learning Outcome(s):
- Define critical thinking and explain its importance (generally and specifically for doctoral students)
- Distinguish between different types of arguments and understand the factors that make arguments clear and credible
- Identify and analyze the structure and components of arguments
- Assess the credibility of sources and claims
- Recognize and evaluate forms of persuasive rhetoric
- Evaluate psychological and related fallacies
- Compare and contrast inductive and deductive reasoning
- Analyze the influence of language ambiguity, vagueness, and other linguistic factors on reasoning
- Identify social influence and persuasion strategies and address illusions of invulnerability
- Evaluate psychological theory; compare and contrast different theoretical models based on evidence and reason
- Use critical thinking skills to analyze and make clear and logical arguments about controversial topics in clinical psychology
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