Terms and Definitions
Stages of Knowing
Problem Solving
Thinking, Believing and Knowing
Reporting, Inferring and Knowing
100
The process of actively selecting, organizing and interpreting sensations
What is perceiving?
100
1. Garden of Eden 2. Anything Goes 3. Thinking Critically
What are the three stages of "knowing" as defined by Chaffee?
100
Five
How many steps are there in the problem solving process?
100
Seeing, hearing, touching, smelling and tasting
What are the five senses?
100
Descriptions that express an evaluation based on certain criteria
What are judgments?
200
Interpretations, evaluations, conclusions and predictions about the world that are endorsed to be true
What are beliefs?
200
Belief in the unchanging and absolute nature of knowledge and truth as presented by authority
What is "Garden of Eden" or "Either/Or" thinking? Bonus 100 points: Can you give another name for this type of thinking?
200
List the alternative solutions
What is the second step in the problem solving process?
200
Reverse Jeopardy: What are the three factors that influence our perceptions?
Education Experience Relationships
200
There are 19 students in GST 100-D
What is a report?
300
Describing the world in ways that are based on factual information yet goes beyond the facts to make a statement about what is not currently known
What is inferring?
300
Thinking that recognizes that some viewpoints are better than others due to compelling reasons and evidence
What is Stage 3 or Thinking Critically?
300
Reverse Jeopardy: List 2 examples of not thinking critically to solve a problem.
1. Acting impulsively 2. Doing what someone else tells you to do without evaluation 3. Doing nothing
300
Identify the Stage of Knowing represented by this statement: "I saw an ad showing a doctor who said to eat more fiber and so now I eat three bowls of oatmeal everyday."
Garden of Eden or Right or Wrong or Either/Or
300
Augsburg College is a great place to go to college.
Give an example of an judgment.
400
A situation or decision that involves two conflicting moral beliefs and you are asked to make a decision
What is a moral dilemma?
400
Philosophy that truth and knowledge are relative to the individual, situation or context of the belief holder Bonus Question: What name does Chaffe give to this type of thinking?
What is relativism?
400
Monitor the results and make necessary adjustments
What is the fifth step in the problem solving process?
400
Reverse Jeopardy: List two ways to critically analyze your perceptions of the world.
Ask questions Engage in dialogue Be open-minded Be curious Seek out other perspectives
400
It must have rained last night, the grass is wet.
Give an example of an inference
500
Process that gives meaning to the patterns or designs of our sensations so that it mean something
What is interpreting?
500
"I saw this ad with a doctor saying you should eat more fiber so I am eating three bowls of oatmeal everyday."
What is an example of "Garden of Eden" thinking?
500
What are the five steps in the problem solving process?
1. Define the problem 2. List the possible alternative solutions 3. Consider the pros and cons of the alternatives 4. Make a decision / Choose a solution 5. Monitor the results and make necessary adjustments
500
Process of paying attention to certain sensations and ignoring others
What is selecting in relationship to our sensations?
500
Reverse Jeopardy: 2 parts each worth 250 points What is the definition of reporting and to what Costa Level is it related?
1. Describing the world in ways that can be verified through investigation or facts 2. Costa's Level One: Gathering Information
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