COR 195 ALL UPDATED FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Personal Critical Thinking Indicators: - ✔✔- Self aware
- Genuine/authentic
- Effective communication
- Curious and inquisitive
- Alert to context
- Reflective and self-corrective
- Analytical and insightful
- Logical and intuitive
- Confident and resilient
- Honest and upright
- Autonomous/responsible
- Careful/prudent
- Open/fair-minded
- Sensitive to diversity
- Creative
- Realistic/practical
- Proactive
- Courageous
- Patient/present
- Flexible
- Health-oriented
, - Improvement-oriented (self, patients, systems)
✔✔Problem Solving: - ✔✔- Is missing important concepts of prevention, creativity,
improvement and aiming for the best results (compared to critical thinking)
✔✔Problem-Focused Vs. Outcome-Focused Thinking: - ✔✔- Closely related
- There are may ways to solve a problem: there are quick fixes, "one-size-fits-all"
solutions, temporary/long term solutions and solutions that are satisfactory, but could be
better.
- Outcome focused thinking aims to fix problems in ways that get you the best results
- Sometimes there's many problems that best approach may be to focus on outcomes
rather than problems. Ex: if you work on a team with many interpersonal problems, your
manager might say"we have a long history of problems, and it will take forever to fix
them. I want to see us all working as a team. I'm asking you to put the problems aside
and get agreement on roles, responsibilities, and behavior, so our patients get good
care and we enjoy coming to work."
✔✔Analyzing: - ✔✔- Critical thinking requires this.
- Requires coming up with new ideas (right-brain thinking) and judging the worth of
those ideas (left-brain thinking)
- Some overly analytical people suffer from "analysis paralysis" - overthinking problems
when they should be taking action
✔✔Scientific Method In Critical Thinking: - ✔✔- Observing: continuously
observing/examining to collect data, check for changes, gain understanding
- Classifying Data: grouping related information so patterns and relationships emerge
- Drawing Conclusions: that follow logically: "If this is so, then.."
- Conducting Experiments: performing studies to examine hypothesis and identifying
ways to improve
- Testing Hypothesis: Determining whether we have factual evidence to support our
assumptions
✔✔Emotional Quotient (EQ): - ✔✔- Ability to recognize/manage your own emotions and
help others do the same - it's as important to critical thinking as intelligence quotient (IQ)
✔✔Critical thinking indicator (CTI): - ✔✔- CTI gives verbal descriptions of behaviors that
promote critical thinking
- 4-circle model shows what critical thinking involves
- Critical thinking involves a blend of critical thinking characteristics, theoretical,
experiential knowledge, interpersonal skills, technical skills
✔✔4-Circle Model: - ✔✔- Critical thinking characteristics (attitudes/behaviors)
- Technical skills/competencies
- Interpersonal/self-management skills
- Theoretical and experiential knowledge, intellectual skills/competencies
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Personal Critical Thinking Indicators: - ✔✔- Self aware
- Genuine/authentic
- Effective communication
- Curious and inquisitive
- Alert to context
- Reflective and self-corrective
- Analytical and insightful
- Logical and intuitive
- Confident and resilient
- Honest and upright
- Autonomous/responsible
- Careful/prudent
- Open/fair-minded
- Sensitive to diversity
- Creative
- Realistic/practical
- Proactive
- Courageous
- Patient/present
- Flexible
- Health-oriented
, - Improvement-oriented (self, patients, systems)
✔✔Problem Solving: - ✔✔- Is missing important concepts of prevention, creativity,
improvement and aiming for the best results (compared to critical thinking)
✔✔Problem-Focused Vs. Outcome-Focused Thinking: - ✔✔- Closely related
- There are may ways to solve a problem: there are quick fixes, "one-size-fits-all"
solutions, temporary/long term solutions and solutions that are satisfactory, but could be
better.
- Outcome focused thinking aims to fix problems in ways that get you the best results
- Sometimes there's many problems that best approach may be to focus on outcomes
rather than problems. Ex: if you work on a team with many interpersonal problems, your
manager might say"we have a long history of problems, and it will take forever to fix
them. I want to see us all working as a team. I'm asking you to put the problems aside
and get agreement on roles, responsibilities, and behavior, so our patients get good
care and we enjoy coming to work."
✔✔Analyzing: - ✔✔- Critical thinking requires this.
- Requires coming up with new ideas (right-brain thinking) and judging the worth of
those ideas (left-brain thinking)
- Some overly analytical people suffer from "analysis paralysis" - overthinking problems
when they should be taking action
✔✔Scientific Method In Critical Thinking: - ✔✔- Observing: continuously
observing/examining to collect data, check for changes, gain understanding
- Classifying Data: grouping related information so patterns and relationships emerge
- Drawing Conclusions: that follow logically: "If this is so, then.."
- Conducting Experiments: performing studies to examine hypothesis and identifying
ways to improve
- Testing Hypothesis: Determining whether we have factual evidence to support our
assumptions
✔✔Emotional Quotient (EQ): - ✔✔- Ability to recognize/manage your own emotions and
help others do the same - it's as important to critical thinking as intelligence quotient (IQ)
✔✔Critical thinking indicator (CTI): - ✔✔- CTI gives verbal descriptions of behaviors that
promote critical thinking
- 4-circle model shows what critical thinking involves
- Critical thinking involves a blend of critical thinking characteristics, theoretical,
experiential knowledge, interpersonal skills, technical skills
✔✔4-Circle Model: - ✔✔- Critical thinking characteristics (attitudes/behaviors)
- Technical skills/competencies
- Interpersonal/self-management skills
- Theoretical and experiential knowledge, intellectual skills/competencies
