C182 - Critical Thinking and Logic
Study Guide
Cut Score: 60%
Time Allotted: 120 min
# Items: 30
Attempts Remaining: 3
Critical Thinking and Logic (LMC1)
Objective Assessment
Cut Score: 60%
Time Allotted: 120 min
# Items: 26
Competencies
Personal Notes:
Study Modules 1 & 2 intensely and know how to apply the concepts when given a real world
scenario. Use the information contained therein to answer subjective questions in the PA. Know
all the vocabs and take all the end of module assessments. The OA is easier than the PA and
not as subjective. Read each question very carefully but don’t overthink it!
I didn’t include everything in the Flash Cards since so much of it came naturally to me. Feel free
to add more as you like. Export the Flash Card spreadsheet to your flash card program of
choice (Anki, etc.).
Study Guide
Module 1: What is Critical Thinking
Critical thinking - An intellectual model for understanding issues and forming reasonable
and informed views on them.
Fundamentals of Critical Thinking
● Analyzing - breaking your thinking down into its component parts.
● Evaluating - identifying your thinking for weaknesses while recognizing its
strengths.
● Improving - being able to reconstruct your thinking in order to make it better.
Impediments to sound thinking
● Making generalizations unsupported by evidence
● Letting a stereotype shape our thinking
● Viewing the world from one fixed vantage point
● Forming false beliefs
● Dismissing or attacking viewpoints that conflict with our own
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, ● Thinking deceptively about our own experiences
Characteristics of Critical Thinking:
● self-directed
● self-disciplined
● self-monitored
● Self-corrective
Impediments to critical thinking native to everyone:
● Egocentrism - The tendency to view everything in relationship to oneself
● Sociocentrism - The assumption that one's own social group is inherently
superior to all others
The Result of Critical Thinking:
● Raises vital questions
● Gathers and assesses relevant information
● Reaches well-reasoned conclusions and solutions
● Thinks open-mindedly
● Communicates effectively with others
First-order thinking (ordinary thinking)
● Spontaneous and non-reflective
● Contains insight, prejudice, good and bad reasoning
● Indiscriminately combined
Second-order thinking (critical thinking)
● Also known as critical thinking
● First-order thinking that is consciously realized (i.e., analyzed, assessed, and
reconstructed)
Weak-sense critical thinking - Thinking that does not consider counter-viewpoints, that
lacks fair-mindedness, and that uses critical thinking skill to defend current viewpoints.
Strong-sense critical thinking - Thinking that uses critical thinking skills to evaluate all
beliefs, especially one’s own, and that pursues that which is intellectually fair and just.
Fair-mindedness - the commitment to consider all relevant opinions equally without
regard to one’s own sentiments or selfish interests.
Critical Thinker Traits
● Intellectual Humility
● Intellectual Courage
● Intellectual Empathy
● Intellectual Integrity
● Intellectual Perseverance
● Confidence in Reason
● Intellectual Autonomy
Three Functions of the Mind
● Thinking - creates meaning. It sorts events in our lives into categories.
● Feeling - monitors the meanings created by thinking. It evaluates the degree to
which life's events are either positive or negative
● Wanting - allocates energy into action.
Improving Your Thinking: Tactics for the Beginning Critical Thinker
● Use "wasted" time
● Handle one problem per day
● Internalize intellectual standards
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Study Guide
Cut Score: 60%
Time Allotted: 120 min
# Items: 30
Attempts Remaining: 3
Critical Thinking and Logic (LMC1)
Objective Assessment
Cut Score: 60%
Time Allotted: 120 min
# Items: 26
Competencies
Personal Notes:
Study Modules 1 & 2 intensely and know how to apply the concepts when given a real world
scenario. Use the information contained therein to answer subjective questions in the PA. Know
all the vocabs and take all the end of module assessments. The OA is easier than the PA and
not as subjective. Read each question very carefully but don’t overthink it!
I didn’t include everything in the Flash Cards since so much of it came naturally to me. Feel free
to add more as you like. Export the Flash Card spreadsheet to your flash card program of
choice (Anki, etc.).
Study Guide
Module 1: What is Critical Thinking
Critical thinking - An intellectual model for understanding issues and forming reasonable
and informed views on them.
Fundamentals of Critical Thinking
● Analyzing - breaking your thinking down into its component parts.
● Evaluating - identifying your thinking for weaknesses while recognizing its
strengths.
● Improving - being able to reconstruct your thinking in order to make it better.
Impediments to sound thinking
● Making generalizations unsupported by evidence
● Letting a stereotype shape our thinking
● Viewing the world from one fixed vantage point
● Forming false beliefs
● Dismissing or attacking viewpoints that conflict with our own
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, ● Thinking deceptively about our own experiences
Characteristics of Critical Thinking:
● self-directed
● self-disciplined
● self-monitored
● Self-corrective
Impediments to critical thinking native to everyone:
● Egocentrism - The tendency to view everything in relationship to oneself
● Sociocentrism - The assumption that one's own social group is inherently
superior to all others
The Result of Critical Thinking:
● Raises vital questions
● Gathers and assesses relevant information
● Reaches well-reasoned conclusions and solutions
● Thinks open-mindedly
● Communicates effectively with others
First-order thinking (ordinary thinking)
● Spontaneous and non-reflective
● Contains insight, prejudice, good and bad reasoning
● Indiscriminately combined
Second-order thinking (critical thinking)
● Also known as critical thinking
● First-order thinking that is consciously realized (i.e., analyzed, assessed, and
reconstructed)
Weak-sense critical thinking - Thinking that does not consider counter-viewpoints, that
lacks fair-mindedness, and that uses critical thinking skill to defend current viewpoints.
Strong-sense critical thinking - Thinking that uses critical thinking skills to evaluate all
beliefs, especially one’s own, and that pursues that which is intellectually fair and just.
Fair-mindedness - the commitment to consider all relevant opinions equally without
regard to one’s own sentiments or selfish interests.
Critical Thinker Traits
● Intellectual Humility
● Intellectual Courage
● Intellectual Empathy
● Intellectual Integrity
● Intellectual Perseverance
● Confidence in Reason
● Intellectual Autonomy
Three Functions of the Mind
● Thinking - creates meaning. It sorts events in our lives into categories.
● Feeling - monitors the meanings created by thinking. It evaluates the degree to
which life's events are either positive or negative
● Wanting - allocates energy into action.
Improving Your Thinking: Tactics for the Beginning Critical Thinker
● Use "wasted" time
● Handle one problem per day
● Internalize intellectual standards
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