Critical Thinking Skills
The Basics
Random Facts
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How many skills are needed for critical thinking?

Six

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What is one of the three best way to generate ideas?

Talking with others
Idea mapping
Focused free writing

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What is one of the academic disciplines?

Psychology, History, Sociology, Rhetoric/composition, marketing and management, women's studies, and global studies.

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How do you analyze competing problems and answers?

By viewing the problems from both sides

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Such comprehension is important, but it is only a _________

Starting Point

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What scientific field focuses on human behavior and how it's affected by repressed childhood experiences and environmental stimuli.

What is Psychology

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How do you analyze a problem in all its dimensions?

define key terms, determine its roots, understand its history, learn its human components and its connection to your own personal experiences, and understand what makes it a problem

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Prior to what decade did colleges writing courses typically organize around around rhetorical modes (description, narration, exemplification, comparison and contrast, and so forth).

what is the 1970's

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This educator emphasized the importance of students becoming problem raisers instead of memorization machines. Encouraging critical thinking and inquiry in eduation.

Who is Paulo Freire

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