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BIO 250 EXAM 1 – Questions With Reviewed
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What is Ophelia syndrome? Not knowing your own opinion and not expressing
them to an authority even if you did. You have no
thoughts of your own. It is not knowing how to think
on your own and preferring that an authority figure
tells you everything.
-Ophelia doesn't know how to think. Ophelia is told
to think herself as a baby.
How do we overcome Ophelia 1. Seek out great teachers.
syndrome? How do we think for 2. Dare to know and trust yourself
ourselves? 3. Learn to live with uncertainty
4. Practice dialectical thinking
5. Foster idle thinking
6. Plan to step out of bounds
What are the costs and benefits Costs: takes mental energy, TIME, energy, work, risk
associated with thinking? of being wrong, requires brain power, stepping out
of comfort zone, self doubt, takes time and
commitment.
Benefits: freedom, confidence, innovation, problem
solving, deeper learning, self discovery, new
perspectives, advancement.
, Darwin He asked big questions. How do I explain the
diversity of life? Is there a framework of the diversity
of life?
-He wanted to know if there was unifying framework
for all life on earth.
-is there a process that can account for all of the
observed patterns of the diversity of life on earth?
BIO 250 EXAM 1 – Questions With Reviewed
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Terms in this set (76)
What is Ophelia syndrome? Not knowing your own opinion and not expressing
them to an authority even if you did. You have no
thoughts of your own. It is not knowing how to think
on your own and preferring that an authority figure
tells you everything.
-Ophelia doesn't know how to think. Ophelia is told
to think herself as a baby.
How do we overcome Ophelia 1. Seek out great teachers.
syndrome? How do we think for 2. Dare to know and trust yourself
ourselves? 3. Learn to live with uncertainty
4. Practice dialectical thinking
5. Foster idle thinking
6. Plan to step out of bounds
What are the costs and benefits Costs: takes mental energy, TIME, energy, work, risk
associated with thinking? of being wrong, requires brain power, stepping out
of comfort zone, self doubt, takes time and
commitment.
Benefits: freedom, confidence, innovation, problem
solving, deeper learning, self discovery, new
perspectives, advancement.
, Darwin He asked big questions. How do I explain the
diversity of life? Is there a framework of the diversity
of life?
-He wanted to know if there was unifying framework
for all life on earth.
-is there a process that can account for all of the
observed patterns of the diversity of life on earth?
