Experimenting & learning to think critically and competently: Combining 2020 technology with student-driven research

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Experiential learning and discovery of the new -A proposed approach based upon the emerging science of Mind GenomicsThe emerging science of Mind Genomics can be considered as a hybrid of experimental psychology, consumer research, statistics, and mathematical modeling.The objective of Mind Genomics is the study of how people respond to the stimuli of the ordinary, the every day.We know from common experience that people go about their daily business almost without deeply thinking about things, in a way that Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman called System 1, or 'thinking fast' [1].We also know that there are many different aspects to the same experience, such as shopping.People differ, consistently so, in when they shop, why they shop, how they get to the place where they will make a purchase, the pattern of shopping, what they shop for, and why.Howard Moskowitz (2020) Experimenting & learning to think critically and competently: Combining 2020 technology with student-driven research Volume 2(1): 2-13, 2020 The variation is dramatic, the topics not so interesting, the exploration of the topics left to mind-numbing tabulations, which list the facts, rather than penetrating below, into the reasons. Psychol J Res Open,Mind Genomics was developed to understand the patterns of decision making, not so much in artificial laboratory situations to develop hypotheses for limited situations, but rather to understand the decision rules of daily life.Instead of mind-numbing tables of statistics from which one gleans patterns, so-called 'connecting the dots, ' Mind Genomics attempts to elicit these individual patterns of decision making in easy-to-do experiments.The output, once explained, fascinates the user, converting that user into an involved explorer, looking for novella, insights, and discoveries that are new to the world, discoveries 'belonging to the student' .The day to day worlds, the ordinary, quotidian aspects of our existence, become grist for the mill of discovery.The result is that discoveries about the ordinary, discoveries that when harnessed by teachers and appreciated by students, combine experiential learning, and learning how to think critically As noted above, Mind Genomics derives historically from psychology, consumer research, statistics, and modeling.The objective of Mind Genomics is to uncover the specific criteria by which people assign judgments.The topics are unlimited.

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