CDASA 1 Creative and Critical Thinking Practice Questions with Answers

Critical Thinking form of cognition that enables evaulative and deterministic activities; quality of sources, identifying assumptions Creative Thinking generates new and unidentified connections to broaden perspectives; identifying new sources, developing new scenarios for future outcomes Mind-set What people perceive, how they perceive it, and how they process information Mind-set influencing factors past experience education cultural values role requirements organizational norms specifics of information received Mind-set disadvantage can color and control our perceptions--making slow to react to new information Mind-set advantage helps keep production on track and maintain awareness during lulls in major crisis Principles of Perception 1. we tend to perceive what we expect to perceive 2. mind-sets tend to be quick to form, resistant to change 3. new information is assimilated into existing images 4. initial exposure to blurred or ambiguous stimuli interferes with accurate information Cognitive Bias 1. Caused by limitations where mind employs simplifying strategies to ease mental processing 2. Not caused by emotional/intellectual predisposition, subconscious 3. Mental error that is consistent and predictable List of Cognitive Biases Fundamental Attribution error Confirmation bias Self-serving bias Belief bias Framing Hindsight bias