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Flashcards by Andrew Beavers, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Andrew Beavers
over 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| What are the four sub-skill sets of critical thinking? | Investigate Create and Develop Communicate Evaluate |
| What does self-regulation mean? | Self-consciously monitoring one’s cognitive activities, the elements used in those activities by applying skills in analysis, and evaluation to one’s own inferential judgments with a view toward questioning, confirming, validating, or correcting either one’s reasoning or one’s results. |
| What is open-mindedness? | Willingness to investigate viewpoints different from your own and ability to recognize when to doubt claims that do not merit such investigation. |
| How can you be open-minded and still maintain a healthy sense of skepticism | Seek out facts, information sources, and reasoning to support issues you intend to judge; Examine issues from as many sides as possible; Rationally look for the good and bad points of the various sides examined; Accept the fact that you may be in error yourself; Maintain the goal of getting at the truth or as close to the truth as possible |
| What does intellectual humility mean | Adhering tentatively to recently acquired opinions; Being prepared to examine new evidence and arguments even if such examination leads you to discover flaws in your own cherished beliefs; Stop thinking that complex issues can be reduced to right and wrong or black and white and look at degrees of certainty or shades of gray; Recognizing that “I don’t know” can sometimes be the wisest position to take on an issue. |
| What does it mean to be a free-thinker | Having an independent mind and being able to restrain yourself from the desire to believe because of social pressures to conform |
| What does it mean to have a high motivation to become a critical thinker | Having a natural curiosity to further your understanding ; Putting in the work to evaluate the multiple sides of an issue; Reaching a sufficient level of understanding before making judgments |
| What are the four categories of hindrances to critical thinking discussed in this chapter? | Basic Human Limitations, Use of Language, Faulty Logic or Perception, Psychological or Sociological Pitfalls |
| As a critical thinker, what are some questions you should ask yourself about any source of information? | A critical thinker should ask: Is the source credible, unbiased, and accurate? Does the source have a motive for being inaccurate or overly biased? |
| What is the Holistic Critical Thinking Scoring Rubric (HCTSR) and how is it useful to critical thinkers? | This tool relies on the ordinary meanings of common terms used to talk about thinking. It can aid you in evaluating real-life examples of critical thinking because it only requires you to consider four evaluative definitions: “strong,” “acceptable,” “unacceptable,” and “weak.” This simple tool is sufficient to get you started evaluating critical thinking. |
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