Critical Analysis Of The Attack On Truth By Lee Hare

A) Mr. Gualtieri cannot draw a conclusion about a cause-and-effect relationship from the evidence he has because he would be too quick to determine the factors that are affecting the students’ learning, development, and behavior (Ormrod, 2014, p.11). Instead of worrying about the cause-and- effect relationship from the evidence, Mr. Gualtieri should scrutinize the research report carefully; therefore, he must answer two questions. First, he must determine if he separated and controlled variables that might have an influence on the outcome. Second, he must ask if he has ruled out other possible explanations for his results? (Ormrod, 2014, p.11). If Mr. Gualtieri’s answers to both these questions are yes, then he should be able to draw a conclusion about the cause-and-effect relationship. Unfortunately, “yes” is not the answer to the two questions. This software program may not lead itself to experimental manipulation and tight control of other potentially influential variables because it is considered as a quasi-experimental study (Ormrod, 2014, p.10). Some of these influential variables that cannot be

In the book “Nothing But the Truth”, a young adult fiction novel written by Avi. In “Nothing But the Truth”, Philip Malloy, the main character, begins humming during the morning announcements when the National Anthem was played. Everyone thought that he was trying to create a disturbance but Philip said that he was trying to be Patriotic. A few days later, he got suspended. Philip’s story was heard from all over the country several days later. All of Philip’s friends and teachers are trying to prove him wrong and the country thanking him for something he lied about. So to avoid the mess, Philip switched to a private school. But when the Nation Anthem played there, a teacher asked him to sing but Philip said that he doesn’t know the words. Throughout the entire book, Philip was treated fairly for many reasons. First, for how Philip was

According to the course syllabus we were introduced to the techniques of psychological research. This course was able to provide an understanding of how research is done, and what methods we can use to do so. By having a clear understanding of research and techniques used, it allows us to communicate effectively in regards to ideas behind the research process. In this paper, I will use myself as the case study to examine exactly what I learned about research.

I improved the way I find evidence by using reputable database like EBSCO rather than Google. This removed any doubt that the source was credible due to the revisions of peers who are experts in the respective fields. When combining all of the evidence, I learned to corroborate evidence in the same paragraph by finding studies that show similar results (3-4).

1. Brain Based Research: What does this tell us about young children 's brains and how they best learn? What ideas do teachers of young children need to keep in mind?

Take the point of view of Brendtro, Mitchell, & Doncaster (2011) and analyze the article(s) you selected in #3. Using these authors’ arguments from their “Practice-Based Evidence: Back to the Future” article, what would be their evaluation of the article(s) you selected?

B. Blake & T. Pope. (2008). Developmental Psychology: Incorporating Piaget’s and Vygotsky’s Theories in. Journal of Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives in Education, Vol. 1, No 1,, 59-67. Retrieved from http://jcpe.wmwikis.net/file/view/blake.pdf

William K. Clifford, a great mathematician and philosopher of the 1877 authored the essay The Ethics of Belief. In this famous essay he wrote about how it is always wrong to believe anything that does not have concrete evidence. Although people always have different opinions, beliefs based on bad or incomplete evidence are always wrong no matter what. I believe what Clifford says in this essay about bad evidence because when people believe things that are not true it could negatively affect another person’s life. Clifford gives two examples one of a boat and one about gossip, which helps demonstrate how not having concrete evidence to support one’s statements can negatively impact people around them.

Did you summarize the article in your own words including the finding of the study? Yes

1968- The textbook, “Educational Psychology: A Cognitive View” written by David Ausubel was published. It confirmed the influence of cognitive perspectives within the field.

There are some limitations to this literature review. One limitation is some of these studies may be outdated being that they are from the 1990s (i.e: Dulit et. al, 1990; Miller et. al, 1993; and Dougherty et. al, 1999). Another limitation is some of the studies were not randomized samples (i.e: Miller et. al, 1993 and Tragesser et. al, 2013). If samples are not random this could mean the results are bias.

The article “The Attack on Truth” by Mclntyre Lee is about willful ignorance and the fact people are very stubborn. Willful ignorance is when they keep them self from the facts and the truth that is right. The one very likely candidate is the Internet. It has gotten to the point where very little people know simple things like when the dinosaurs lived. It is all because of the internet and the fact that the kids these days don't go around and fact check because they have “better things to do.” This article is about kids And adults not learning to tell the fake news between the real news.

Imagine a circle, and within this circle is our society, our religious beliefs, our political idealizations, and our culture. In his essay, “The Ethics of Belief”, W.K. Clifford wrote, “It’s always wrong, everywhere, and for anyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence” (1879, pg. 190). Specifically, W.K, Clifford was contemptuously referring to our habit of clinging to our personal biases when there was no evidence to substantiate those beliefs, and/or despite evidence that directly contradicted those beliefs. W.K. Clifford advocated that we should utilize rational thought in order to uncover the truth, and cautioned against taking any actions prior to examining all the facts. Otherwise, W.K. Clifford warned we as a society would “…sink back into savagery” (190). At that point, W.K. Clifford touches upon the concept of what lurks outside our circle of society and culture: our primitive nature.

One of the more popular areas of psychology is Educational Psychology. Educational Psychology can be explained several ways. The idea is to study theories and concepts from different parts of psychology and apply them in educational settings. These educational settings may occur in different school settings such as preschool. The goal of educational psychology is to create a positive student-teacher relationship. Educational psychology uses five different types of psychology, behavioral, cognitive, developmental, and social cognitive, and constructivist in this research paper I will be briefly discussing each type of psychology listed above.

Hume, a Scottish 18th century philosopher, offers yet another view on knowledge and how we treat that which we already have. His work aptly titled Of Miracles, discusses the fact that we reject anything we find absurd even if we have knowledge of it being true. He maintains that the closest thing we have to accepting these absurd truths is miracles. Hume’s assessment of miracles adds another facet to the topic of knowledge and how we treat strange and wondrous things. He chooses to address how readily we accept false knowledge simply by believing things told to us by prophets. Since they have been deemed all knowing, we take things at face value. In a way, instead of telling us how to seek knowledge and wisdom, he reprimands the human population for not seeking and questioning that which we’ve been told.