We describe how instructors can integrate the critical thinking skill of examining theoretical assumptions (e.g., determinism and materialism) and implications into psychology courses. In this instructional approach, students formulate questions that help them identify assumptions and implications, use those questions to identify and examine the assumptions and implications of theories being studied, and develop defensible positions on the tenability of various theoretical assumptions. We suggest that this instructional approach fits within extant critical thinking proposals, such as those formulated by King (1995) and Halonen (1995).
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