Are you able to identify the difference between what you have learned superficially and what you have learned deeply?
What is (name of subject—for example, history, biology)? What is the main goal of studying this subject? What are people in this field trying to accomplish?
What kinds of questions do they ask? What kinds of problems do they solve? What sorts of information or data do they gather?
How do they go about gathering information in ways that are distinctive to this field? What is the most basic idea, concept, or theory in this field? How did studying this field change your view of the world?
If you find it difficult to answer these questions, consider the hypothesis that you might have received your high grade by cramming for tests or by some other means of superficial learning.
Are you able to identify the difference between what you have learned superficially and what you have learned deeply?
Analyze the logic of psychology by breaking the discipline down into its elements. The logic of this discipline can be analyzed by:
Examining the purpose of psychology
Questions that psychologists answers
Information that is used by psychologists
Concepts used within psychology
Judgments or inferences made by psychology
Assumptions that underlie the inferences
Implications of psychology
Point of view psychologists
