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Do you think the process of cognitive learning gets blocked by the need to question?

The need to question a theory or possibility. The need to think of a loophole or hidden solution. You grow up being instilled this incentive to question everything, but it only leads to rebellion and disbelief, no matter how much truth you put behind it. The complexity to explain things at a conceptual level and realize that our universal truths are perceptions that we've made to understand and discover the unknown makes it hard to accept literally anything.

This seems like it branches into many ofther topics.
-Environmental factors affecting Motives and morals
-Ignorance blocking the learning curve
-The very idea of telling someone how to think

>> No.4086814

Actually, if you don't question the knowledge you are faced with everyday, you are more likely to not have elaborate cognitive structures. Pragmatical attributions theory tend to make the fastest attribution given the smallest information. Used excessively, you are bound to only get the fastest answer to a question rather than the most logical or plausible one since attributions in important cases need reflexion, althought quickness isn't necessarily faulty.

Plus, it has been proved, notably in the primacy effect and the first impression that a knowledge is more important when first given; therefore, if you don't question the informations you are given, you are most likely bound to "block" futur informations.

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4086831

>use sources from the internet to beat people in debates
>how do you know if the source isnt a lie?

mfw

>> No.4086844

>>4086831
The Internet, especially forums, should only be used as a tool to direct your research towards concepts, authors, books (online or not) and ideas. That's why Wikipedia shouldn't be mentionned as a source in a work, but is always used in some way to get the basic idea about something.

Anyway, look up Theories of attribution by Weiner, Kelley, Theories of integration of information by Asch and Anderson, Cognitive biasis and the general field of social psychology.

>> No.4086860

well, duh.
how else do you explain truthers and all other sorts of conspiracy theorists.

they obviously don't know how to not question everything.

>> No.4086861

>>4086844

I will.

>> No.4087061

bump