Characteristics of a Critical Thinker
Being a habitual planner.
Demonstrating mental flexibility when confronted with new evidence.
Admitting to making mistakes.
Which of the following reasoning skills is primarily used to determine the credibility of sources of information?
A) Induction
B) Deduction
C) Evaluation
D) Analysis
What is Evaluation?
Metacognitive skills enable individuals to:
A) Analyze your own thinking skills
B) Utilize strategies to reach your goal
C) Revise your progress
D) All of the above
What is "All of the Above."
Which of the following is NOT an example of inference:
A) Drawing conclusions from reasons and evidence
B) A hypothesis based on personal beliefs.
C) Indicating necessary or probable consequences of a given set of facts and conditions
D) Applying accepted theories to solve a math problem
What is A Hypothesis based on personal beliefs?
"EVERYONE LOVES THIS PRODUCT; THEREFORE, YOU SHOULD BUY IT," is an example of which common fallacy?
A) The slippery slope
B) False cause
C) The bandwagon
D) The weak analogy
What is The Bandwagon?
Which one of these focuses on a person's moral and ethical qualities and can demonstrate the qualities of honesty, courage, and integrity?
A) Character
B) Purpose
C) Intellect
D) Critical Thinking
What is Character?
This reasoning skill is used when one makes inferences based on analogies, case studies, prior experience, and patterns.
A) Inference
B) Induction
C) Deduction
D) Analysis
What is Induction?
The lowest level of Bloom's taxonomy is:
A) Creating
B) Analyzing
C) Remembering
D) Evaluating
What is Remembering?
Making inferences help students to:
A) Understand ideas and meanings not directly stated
B) Understand ideas and meanings that are directly stated
C) Think about thinking
D) Improve self-awareness
What is Understand ideas and meanings not directly stated?
This fallacy claims, without sufficient proof, that if we taken even one step down a certain path that we won't stop until the very worst prediction come true.
a. Tu Quoque
b. The False Dilemma
c. The Slippery Slop Analogy
d. A fallacy of Non-Sequitur
What is The Slippery Slope Analogy?
Which best characterizes someone with the disposition of a critical thinker?
A) Being born smart
B) Being raised by good parents
C) Being closed minded
D) Being intellectually humble
What is being intellectually humble?
Which of the following is not one of the five reasoning skills in the QEP?
A) Critical Thinking
B) Deduction
C) Induction
D) Inference
What is Critical Thinking?
Why do you always want to monitor and evaluate your progress when thinking through a task?
A) Because you want to be able to accurately predict your outcome on the assignment
B) Because you want to review your weaknesses to see where you can strengthen them next time
C) Because you want to be able to adjust your learning strategies if they did not work
D) All of the above
What is All of the Above?
Read the following scenario and determine if the statement is a fact or an inference._Johnny is a first-year student at GMC and is taking 3 courses: ENG 101, BIO 123, and PER 101. Johnny is also working 20 hours per week and assisting his mother with childcare for his two younger siblings. Johnny is at risk of failing all of his subjects._JOHNNY IS A GMC STUDENT.
A) Inference
B) Fact
C) Neither
What is "Fact?"
This fallacy tries to convince people by comparing two things that are weakly connected.
a. The Bandwagon
b. Post Hoc Fallacy
c. Name Calling
d. Tu Quoque
What is Tu Quoque?
What three values does the textbook discuss as illustrations of good character?
A) honesty, integrity, and courage
B) patience, listening skills, and good values
C) critical thinking, reading, and writing
D) analysis, evaluation, and inference
What is honesty, integrity, and courage?
This is defined as decision making in precisely defined contexts, where the reasoning goes from general to particular.
A) Induction
B) Deduction
C) Evaluation
D) Inference
What is Deduction?
We can be critical of our own reasoning:
A) By embracing our biases
B) By analyzing other's thinking
C) By using the process of Metacognition
D) By allowing others to criticize us
What is By Using the Process of Metacognition?
Drawing _(blank)_ is/are an opinion, judgment, or decision that is made after thinking about the facts or circumstances.
A) pictures
B) conclusions
C) inferences
D) none of the above
What are Conclusions?
This fallacy uses emotion language or overly positive or negative comments to persuade people to be for or against a product or political candidate or movement.
a. circular reasoning
b. name calling
c. The questionable or false cause
d. The bandwagon
What is Name Calling?
Which characteristic is NOT an example of a critical thinker?
A) Being a habitual planner
B) Demonstrating mental flexibility when confronted with new evidence
C) Admitting to making mistakes
D) Sticking to your personal opinion no matter the facts
What is "sticking to your personal opinion no matter the facts."
This is defined as the ability to draw conclusions from reasons and evidence.
A) Induction
B) Analysis
C) Inference
D) Deduction
What is Inference?
Open mindedness is defined as:
A) Getting organized
B) Asking courageous and probing questions
C) Listening patiently to differing opinions
D) Learning something new
What is Listening patiently to differing opinions?
_ (blank) _ is defined as a flaw in reasoning.
A) Fallacy
B) The false dilemma
C) Circular reasoning
D) Inference
What is a Fallacy?
a. Circular Reasoning
b. Inferring cause from correlation
c. Post hoc fallacy
d. The Hasty Generalization
What is circular reasoning?