Exam 8: Critical Thinking and the Internet

The Deep Mind Therapy mock website discusses how spiritualistic contact with the dead allows access to the unconscious mind and raises questions especially in relationship to the website's:

PsycINFO is _____________ kind of Internet resource.

Plausibility is most related to which of the criteria for judging the quality of websites?

The mock website Deep Mind Therapy states how, in his book Mandala Symbolism, Jung described an American woman interested in psychology who came to study with him. Although she had never painted before, she painted mandalas that contained similar themes, including those of the alchemists from hundreds of years before. What is the limitation of this kind of evidence?

The citation of research by Jung (1875-1961) without other more recent research citations on the Deep Mind Therapy mock website raises questions about the _____ and _____ of the site.

Which classic role is NOT enacted by people involved in conspiracy theory phenomena as studied by Ruscio (2006)?

Compared to information on the Internet, the text points out that traditional newspapers and news organizations:

Explain how conspiracy theories and fake news stories on the Internet have emerged as a serious problem in recent years.

Regarding the plausibility of Telepatherapy, the critical thinker would agree MOST with the statement that Telepatherapy is:

Ruscio (2006) proposed that people play basic roles as part of conspiracy theories. According to Ruscio, people who believe the scientists who claim that Earth's climate is changing because of human activity enact the role of _____ in the conspiracy theory that global warming is a hoax.

The fact that most of the citations of research and supporting information in the mock Telepatherapy website are not very recent raises questions about the _____ of the site.

Which assumption, if considered, is the MOST serious and unwarranted assumption made in the description of the mock website Deep Mind Therapy that would likely change a critical thinker's decision about whether to use it?

Some climate denier conspiracy theorists argue that if there are any scientists who doubt that human activities are causing global warming, then it cannot be true-that is, either all scientists agree or it is not true. These climate deniers are committing which thinking error?

Conspiracy theorists claimed a government cover-up about a supposed landing of aliens in Roswell, New Mexico. Which thinking error do conspiracy theorists commit when they do not accept convincing evidence that refutes this claim?

The research by Sam Wineburg and his colleagues on students' ability to identify fake news on the Internet has shown that _____ are deficient in the ability to identify fake news.

The presence of a grammar error at the beginning of the Deep Mind Therapy mock website raises questions especially about the:

What does the mnemonic "CARE" stand for, and how is it related to guidelines for the critical evaluation of information discussed earlier in the book? More specifically, explain how each of the words corresponding to the letters in the CARE mnemonic corresponds to questions used in the CARE approach and how they relate to relevant information discussed earlier in the book.

The chapter example of "Pizzagate" and the related aggressive actions of Edgar Welch at the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria were used to illustrate the:

In contrast to conspiracy theorists who add assumptions and complexity to their theories as a way to account for claims not supported by data, scientists depend on _____ to try to keep their theories no more complicated than required to account for the data.

The mock website Deep Mind Therapy (DMT) refers to the brilliant and innovative psychologist C. G. Jung as supporting DMT. This statement is MOST like which kind of evidence?