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Monday, Tuesday 1:00 – 3:00 Jepson 017, Thursday 1:00–3:00 our classroom

Test material- from lectures and reading


Test covers 3 Disciplines of Thought and Validity

==Discipline 3: Critical Response==
#What is the difference between assessing rationales (using the three strategies in Discipline #2) and giving a critical response?
#Give an example of a situation in which the best thing to do might be to assessing someone's rationales and a situation in which a broader critical response would be preferred.
#Characteristics of giving a good critical response
==Discipline 4: Recognizing Knowledge==
General forms of knowledge in human culture.  university disciplines, shamans, wise persons, etc.   
Review the following topics on quantitative and numeric information, identify the issue and examples used:
#Establishing a measure
#Percentage and rate
#Linear Vs. Non linear
#Baseline
#Survey
#Cognitive bias (depressive realism- safer in truck)
#Probability
#Regression and multiple regression
==Discipline 5: Recognizing Complexity==
Understand key concepts
#System, complex system
#Network
#6 degrees of separation
#Konigsberg bridge problem
#Coupling
#Feedback loops
#Buffering affect
#Critical variable- indicator variable
#Intransparency
#Review examples of complex systems: such as police partners, syphilis, gonorrhea, relationships
#What are characteristic of people who are good at managing complex systems?  (Dorner's research)