Review List for Final

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

1. What is the difference between assessing rationales (using the three strategies in Discipline #2) and giving a critical response?
2. 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.
3. 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:

1. Establishing a measure
2. Percentage and rate
3. Linear Vs. Non linear
4. Baseline
5. Survey
6. Cognitive bias (depressive realism- safer in truck)
7. Probability
8. Regression and multiple regression

Discipline 5: Recognizing Complexity

Understand key concepts

1. System, complex system
2. Network
3. 6 degrees of separation
4. Konigsberg bridge problem
5. Coupling
6. Feedback loops
7. Buffering affect
8. Critical variable- indicator variable
9. Intransparency
10. Review examples of complex systems: such as police partners, syphilis, gonorrhea, relationships
11. What are characteristic of people who are good at managing complex systems? (Dorner's research)