Circular thinking among university students

Abstract

The basic concept in the current research is Circular reasoning . Circular reasoning  means the use of an individual's cognitive beliefs as premises that assume their reliability  for the purpose of reaching conclusions, in other words that it is used as an introduction to prove the validity of its results, for the purpose of justifying the reliability of the individual for a specific cognitive belief resorting to another belief that has been previously proven reliable, and the latter depends on its credibility on the validity of a third reliable belief, which originally depends on the original cognitive belief, and so we fall into a cognitive circle (210-209 :2005 Alston) .

In order to achieve the objectives of the research, the researcher used the descriptive and associative approach. The current research sample reached (380) students from the University of Babylon and the Humanities. The sample was chosen in a random and stratified way. The researcher adopted the Circular reasoning  test prepared by(Al-Okaidi 2020). The researcher verified the validity of the scale in a manner of apparent validity  and sincerity of the construction and verified its construction. The researcher verified the reliability  of the Circular reasoning  test in a way of retesting and Keudar Richardson method, and reached a number of results, the most important of which

The current research seeks to identify:

1.Circular reasoning  among university students.

Research Findings:

1.University students generally do not have the ability to think circularly