Logical Evaluation There are many outlets in our contemporary culture that resist evaluation: articles, essays, news, and popular media present information in a way that persuades you to accept a […]
Analogy and Usage Analogy is used in communication and persuasion. For example, environmentalists have compared the earth to Easter Island, where overpopulation and exploitation of the island’s once-rich ecology led […]
Memory Techniques: Chunking and Categorization Chunking helps you retain longer sets of information by condensing it into something more manageable and familiar. Phone numbers, for example, are one of the […]
Mnemonic Systems A wikipedia definition: Mnemonic systems are used to make memorization easier. They do so by increasing the efficiency of the process of consolidation. This process involves the conversion […]
Basic reasoning skills are those processes basic to cognition of all forms. There are four categories of basic reasoning skills: (1) storage skills, (2) retrieval skills, (3) matching skills, and […]
