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Critical Thinking correct answers Thinking systematically about one's own thinking in order to
improve it.
Three interraleted dimensions: correct answers Analyze, Evaluate, Improve (or reconstruct)
Goals of critical thinking correct answers Learn to critique your own thinking, Establish new
habits of thought, Develop confidence in reason
Weak-sense vs. Strong-sense correct answers Weak sense: Use of critical thinking to defend
one's current beliefs
Makes no effort to consider viewpoints counter to one's own viewpoint
Strong sense: Commitment to evaluating all beliefs, especially one's own
Consistent pursuit of what is intellectually fair and just
Traits of a Critical Thinker correct answers Intellectual humility
Intellectual courage
Intellectual empathy
Intellectual perserverance
Confidence in reason
Intellectual autonomy
Three functions of the mind correct answers Thinking, feeling, wanting
The mind communicates three messages correct answers Incidents happening in your life,
Feelings about what's happening, Things to pursue or direct our energy toward
Thinking, feeling, and wanting interralate closely and dynamically correct answers Wherever
one is operative, the other are also present
Each continually influence the other two
Single difference correct answers In analyzing causation, looking for a casual factor that is
present in one situation but absent in another, similiar, situation
ex. Only those tourists who visited a given village were infected with a tropical disease; those
who did not were disease free
Common factor correct answers In analyzing causation, looking for a single shared factor
ex. Tourists infected with a tropical disease all took the same flight
Concomitant variation correct answers In analyzing causation, looking for a pattern of variation
between a possible cause and a possible effect
ex. Medical researchers expose laboratory animals to different strains of a topical microbe to see
which are likely to cause sickness
, Process of elimination correct answers In analyzing causation, successively ruling out non-causal
actors until one correct casual factor remains
ex. To figure out why tourists were sick, blood tests ruled out five different diseases and singled
out one tropical microbe that was causing the sickness
Second-order thinking correct answers Another term for critical thinking. It is first-order
thinking (or ordinary thinking) that is consciously realized (i.e., analyzed, assessed, and
improved). Term used by Paul and Elder.
Egocentrism correct answers The tendency to view everything in relationship to oneself and to
regard one's own opinions, values, or interests, as important.
Sophistry correct answers The ability to win an argument regardless of flaws in its reasoning.
Weak-sense thinking correct answers Thinking that does not consider counter viewpoints, that
lacks fairmindedness and that uses critical thinking skills simply to defend current beliefs.
Sociocentrism correct answers The assumption that one's own social group is inherently superior
to all others.
Intellectual humility correct answers Openness to the possibility that one's beliefs are mistaken
and a willingness to reevaluate them in the face of new evidence or persuasive
counterarguments. Term used by Paul and Elder.
Intellectual perserverance correct answers The act of working one's way through intellectual
complexities despite frustrations inherent in doing so. Term used by Paul and Elder.
Sterotype correct answers A fixed or oversimplified conception of a person, group, or idea.
Intellectual cowardice correct answers Fear of ideas or viewpoints that do not conform to one's
own. Term used by Paul and Elder
Intellectual empathy correct answers The act of routinely inhabiting the perspectives of others in
order to genuinely understand them. Term used by Paul and Elder
Fair-mindedness correct answers The commitment to consider all relevant opinions equally
without regard to one's own sentiments or selfish interests.
Fallacies correct answers Flaws or errors in reasoning which, when found in the premise of an
argument, invalidate its conclusion.
Strong-sense thinking correct answers Thinking that uses critical thinking skills to evaluate all
beliefs, especially one's own, and that pursues what is intellectually fair and just.
The importance of questions correct answers The process of questioning is the process of critical
thinking
Critical Thinking correct answers Thinking systematically about one's own thinking in order to
improve it.
Three interraleted dimensions: correct answers Analyze, Evaluate, Improve (or reconstruct)
Goals of critical thinking correct answers Learn to critique your own thinking, Establish new
habits of thought, Develop confidence in reason
Weak-sense vs. Strong-sense correct answers Weak sense: Use of critical thinking to defend
one's current beliefs
Makes no effort to consider viewpoints counter to one's own viewpoint
Strong sense: Commitment to evaluating all beliefs, especially one's own
Consistent pursuit of what is intellectually fair and just
Traits of a Critical Thinker correct answers Intellectual humility
Intellectual courage
Intellectual empathy
Intellectual perserverance
Confidence in reason
Intellectual autonomy
Three functions of the mind correct answers Thinking, feeling, wanting
The mind communicates three messages correct answers Incidents happening in your life,
Feelings about what's happening, Things to pursue or direct our energy toward
Thinking, feeling, and wanting interralate closely and dynamically correct answers Wherever
one is operative, the other are also present
Each continually influence the other two
Single difference correct answers In analyzing causation, looking for a casual factor that is
present in one situation but absent in another, similiar, situation
ex. Only those tourists who visited a given village were infected with a tropical disease; those
who did not were disease free
Common factor correct answers In analyzing causation, looking for a single shared factor
ex. Tourists infected with a tropical disease all took the same flight
Concomitant variation correct answers In analyzing causation, looking for a pattern of variation
between a possible cause and a possible effect
ex. Medical researchers expose laboratory animals to different strains of a topical microbe to see
which are likely to cause sickness
, Process of elimination correct answers In analyzing causation, successively ruling out non-causal
actors until one correct casual factor remains
ex. To figure out why tourists were sick, blood tests ruled out five different diseases and singled
out one tropical microbe that was causing the sickness
Second-order thinking correct answers Another term for critical thinking. It is first-order
thinking (or ordinary thinking) that is consciously realized (i.e., analyzed, assessed, and
improved). Term used by Paul and Elder.
Egocentrism correct answers The tendency to view everything in relationship to oneself and to
regard one's own opinions, values, or interests, as important.
Sophistry correct answers The ability to win an argument regardless of flaws in its reasoning.
Weak-sense thinking correct answers Thinking that does not consider counter viewpoints, that
lacks fairmindedness and that uses critical thinking skills simply to defend current beliefs.
Sociocentrism correct answers The assumption that one's own social group is inherently superior
to all others.
Intellectual humility correct answers Openness to the possibility that one's beliefs are mistaken
and a willingness to reevaluate them in the face of new evidence or persuasive
counterarguments. Term used by Paul and Elder.
Intellectual perserverance correct answers The act of working one's way through intellectual
complexities despite frustrations inherent in doing so. Term used by Paul and Elder.
Sterotype correct answers A fixed or oversimplified conception of a person, group, or idea.
Intellectual cowardice correct answers Fear of ideas or viewpoints that do not conform to one's
own. Term used by Paul and Elder
Intellectual empathy correct answers The act of routinely inhabiting the perspectives of others in
order to genuinely understand them. Term used by Paul and Elder
Fair-mindedness correct answers The commitment to consider all relevant opinions equally
without regard to one's own sentiments or selfish interests.
Fallacies correct answers Flaws or errors in reasoning which, when found in the premise of an
argument, invalidate its conclusion.
Strong-sense thinking correct answers Thinking that uses critical thinking skills to evaluate all
beliefs, especially one's own, and that pursues what is intellectually fair and just.
The importance of questions correct answers The process of questioning is the process of critical
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