Critical Thinking: Evaluating Information

Critical Thinking: Evaluating Information

As you have noted throughout your master's program, psychological knowledge stems mainly from research. Knowledge of the world, in addition to coming from direct experience and observation, comes from many sources, including journals, textbooks, experts, and various media resources (television, newspapers, and the Internet). An important question regarding these resources is, Are they all credible? How do you distinguish fact from fiction in evaluating research information, regardless of its source? This Discussion addresses the importance of critical thinking in evaluating information obtained through various sources, including psychological research. Critical thinking is an invaluable skill in life as well as for completing your Capstone Project.

For this Discussion, you will examine resources on critical thinking and the “Capstone Project Required Content Overview” to explain the importance of critical thinking and how you will apply this skill to completing the Capstone Project.

To prepare:

• From the Learning Resources, review the “Capstone Project Required Content Overview” document.
• From the Learning Resources, review the “Critical Thinking Resources.”
• Review the course Syllabus.
• Post an explanation of the importance of critical thinking and the implications of not questioning information. Based on this week’s Learning Resources, describe how you will use critical thinking to develop the Capstone paper.

  Resources

• American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000
  • Chapter 8, “Works Credited in the Text”Links to an external site.
  • Chapter 9, “Reference List”Links to an external site.
    
    
• Document: Capstone Project Required Content Overview (Word)Download Capstone Project Required Content Overview (Word)

Critical Thinking Resources

• OASIS. (n.d.). Introduction to critical readingLinks to an external site.. Walden University. https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/ASCsuccess/crit...
  
• OASIS. (n.d.). Common reference list examplesLinks to an external site.. Walden University. https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/a... 
  
• OASIS. (n.d.). Master's capstone writingLinks to an external site.. Walden University. https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/m... 
  
• OASIS. (n.d.). GrammarlyLinks to an external site.. https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/g...