CT History
This Greek philosopher was thought to be among the earliest practitioners of critical thinking
Who is Socrates?
This term was defined as “reasonable reflective thinking focused on deciding what to believe or do".
What is critical thinking?
This fallacy involves attacking the person instead of the argument.
What is Ad Hominem (to the person)?
This term suggests that critical thinking can be transferred to different contexts.
What is domain general?
This mediocre critical thinker once led a professional development session on critical thinking.
Who was Schellen?
This “method” was one of the earliest known forms of promoting critical thinking.
What is the Socratic method?
This line of reasoning suggests critical thinking requires subject matter expertise.
What is domain-specific?
This fallacy is when someone avoids the actual argument through diversion.
What is a red herring?
This term refers to the attitudes thought necessary for critical thinking.
What are dispositions?
According to one study, 70% of men and 78% of women read these.
What are horoscopes?
Of BC and AD, this was the time of the earliest Greek philosophers.
What is BC?
This statistical term suggests that two things are related, though one isn’t a trigger for the other.
What is correlation?
This fallacy involves oversimplifying a viewpoint and then attacking the simplification.
What is a straw man?
This statistical term suggests that for two related events, one instigated the other.
What is causation?
Roughly this percentage of people are above average for any given discipline.
What is 50%?
Early spellings of Socrates replaced the letter “C” with this letter.
What is the letter "k"?
This term denotes the pre-conceived notions we have that impact our decisions.
What are biases?
In this fallacy, people will make decisions based on how much they’ve already invested in that decision.
What is the sunk cost fallacy?
This adjective describes the cast members of Scooby Doo from the perspective of the captured criminal.
What is meddling?
Peter Facione, a world-renowned expert in critical thinking, shares a nationality with this popular salad dressing.
What is Italian?
Critical discourse is said to be the underlying assumption of this type of society.
What is democratic?
This term is defined as extrasensory perception, not to be confused with ESPN.
What is clairvoyance?
This fallacy occurs when minor wrongdoings are equated with major transgressions.
What is moral equivalence?
This term describes a proposed explanation for a phenomenon that can be tested.
What is hypothesis?
This fallacy suggests something is true because many believe it.
What is ad populum?