Artificial Intelligence Usage and Perceived Critical Thinking Skills of Psychology Students at National University – Baliwag

As Artificial Intelligence continues to advance, it opens doors of opportunities to augment traditional teaching methods and provide personalized learning styles and experiences tailored to the needs of the students. However, students must consider potential risks and ethical implications associated with the integration of AI in education. This prompted the researchers’ interest in assessing whether and to what degree a relationship exists between the usage of artificial intelligence towards the perceived critical thinking skills among psychology students. The study utilizes a descriptive-correlational research design. The researchers selected one hundred seventy-nine (179) psychology students through a stratified random sampling procedure. Based on the results of the study, it shows that psychology students have high usage of artificial intelligence and high critical thinking skills. It was found that there is a significant relationship between the two variables, r = 0.610, N = 179, p < 0.01. The positive strong correlation between the usage of artificial intelligence and critical thinking skills indicates that students tend to have a high level of critical thinking skills when they have a high level of overall usage of artificial intelligence, specifically awareness, usage, evaluation, and ethics of artificial intelligence. The researchers take into consideration the sex, year level, and artificial intelligence literacy in studying the overall usage of artificial intelligence and its relation to the critical thinking skills of the psychology students.