Is Technology Helping or Hurting Critical Thinking? Provide a Specific

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Essay

Is technology helping or hurting critical thinking? Provide a specific example of a form of technology and explain why and how it is helping or hurting the ability of people to think and reason well.

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Definitions:

Randomized AB Design

An experimental design involving random assignment to two groups, A (control) and B (treatment), to examine the effect of a variable.

ABAB Design

Another name for Reversal Design, illustrating the sequence of observational and intervention phases: A (baseline) followed by B (intervention), another A (withdrawal of intervention), and final B (re-introduction of intervention).

ABAB Designs

A type of experimental design used in behavioral research involving sequential phases to compare the effect of a variable.

Multiple-Baseline Designs

Multiple-baseline designs are experimental methods used to demonstrate the effect of an intervention across different settings, behaviors, or individuals by introducing the intervention at different times.