What is thinking?
When does thinking happen?
When your mind tries to make sense of what is happening to you and leads you to conclusions and judgments.
In critical thinking what do you use?
careful analysis and your best judgment.
What is hearing?
Hearing is continuous, unfocused, and unconscious.
What is communication?
Communication is the creation and sending of information, thoughts, and feelings from one person to another.
Thinking involves:
What is Reasoning, Deciding, Reflecting, Judging and Remembering?
What does critical thinking make sure of?
Critical thinking is making sure you are thinking, reflecting, and reasoning the best you can in any situation.
What is listening?
Listening is a focused, conscious, and hearing activity.
What is the sender and receiver?
The sender is the person who originates and sends a message.
The receiver is the person who receives the sender’s message.
Name the Eight Parts of thinking in order.
Purpose, Question, Information-,Interpretation/ Influence, Concepts, Assumptions, Implications and consequences,Point of view
What are the three basic questions when reading critically?
What does the text say?
What does the text do?
What does the text mean?
What are the Four types of listening?
Passive listening, Competitive listening, Active listening, and Reflective listening.
Why is feedback important?
It lets you—the sender—know that something happened: You got your message across loud and clear. Or maybe not so loud and clear, and you have to say or send it again.
When asking a good question what do you need to find out?
What happened?
When it happened?
Why it happened?
Who was involved?
How it happened?
What are types of questions and explain.
Factual questions
Preference questions
Evaluation or judgement question
What are effective listening techniques? (need at least 2)
Clarifying, Restating, paraphrasing, or “mirroring”, Acknowledging, Summarizing, Framing, and Note taking.
What is the criteria for short words?
Words are short.
Most have only one syllable (in the sentence).
No long words are used simply to impress the receiver.
What is a dead question and what does it allow?
A dead question is a question that gives you useless information.
Allows the person you’re asking to avoid giving you information
What are the standards of Critical thinking?
Clarity, Accuracy, Precision, Relevance, Depth, Breadth,Logic, Significance, and Fairness.
What two effective note taking skills?
Don’t try to write down every word, and summarize at the end of class.
What are the four steps to improve your communication?
• Focus your message
• Magnify the listener’s attention
• Penetrate barriers
• Listen actively