Critical thinking does NOT include which of the following?

a. the use of empirical testing
b. a balance between healthy skepticism and an openness to new ideas
c. a constant revision of one's view of the world and the ability to admit one can be
wrong
d. a strong reliance on the conventional wisdom of experts mixed with a healthy dose of common sense

d

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Humanistic psychologists objected to the biological, psychoanalytic, and behavioral theories of abnormal behavior because these other approaches assume that

a. free will exists. b. behavior is a paradigm. c. human nature is inherently good. d. behavior is predictably determined.

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Some critics argue that the violation-of-expectation method is flawed because

A) it is difficult for observers to discern when babies have habituated to the familiar event. B) this method cannot be used with young babies or toddlers, who easily become fatigued. C) babies make only subtle changes to their behaviors when they recover to a new stimulus. D) it reveals only babies' perceptual preference for novelty, not their knowledge of the physical world.

Psychology