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Course 15 Volume 1 chapter 4
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- 1What are the four sub-skill sets of critical thinking?Investigate
Create and Develop
Communicate
Evaluate - 2What 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.
- 3What 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. - 4How can you be open-minded and still maintain a healthy sense of skepticismSeek 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
- 5What does intellectual humility meanAdhering 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.
- 6What does it mean to be a free-thinkerHaving an independent mind and being able to restrain yourself from the desire to
believe because of social pressures to conform - 7What does it mean to have a high motivation to become a critical thinkerHaving 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
- 8What 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
- 9As 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? - 10What 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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