Benefits of Higher Level Thinking
True or False is Higher-level thinking a skill that can last a lifetime?
True, higher-level thinking is a skill that’s retained on a long-term basis and can be used throughout life.
What form of higher-level thinking can be defined as breaking down information into its essential elements or parts?
Analytical thinking (Analysis)
Which is NOT a strategy to stimulate creative thinking?
Be experimental
Reorganize the problem
Use the internet
Take a break
Use the internet
Thinking about how you are thinking to be aware of your engagement
Metacognition
True or False, the process of brainstorming can only be engaged in alone
False, the process of brainstorming can be engaged alone or with others
Define higher-level thinking
To think and analyze something beyond the obvious and find the deeper meaning
Which is NOT a key perspective listed in Chapter 8?
-Perspective of Person (self)
-Perspective of Life
-Perspective of Place
-Perspective of Time
Perspective of Life
Which strategy is demonstrated by this scenario?
During a math exam, Toni is stuck on the last question. She tries one method but her answer does not match any of the answer choices. She decides to do another method, but again, wrong answer. She keeps trying and does not give up and after her fifth try, she successfully got the correct answer.
Be persistent
How can you use synthesis to deepen your understanding?
Integrating ideas from your reading to information you learned in class
How many steps in the brainstorming process involve divergent thinking?
2 steps
What types of skills are today's employers looking for?
The ability to critically think and problem solve
Statistics show that 75% of students who change their first answer on a multiple choice test get it correct.
Empirical (observational) evidence
Which strategy is demonstrated by this scenario?
Anthony is working on a school project. He’s been sitting at his desk for two hours thinking of an interesting way to format his poster board. He decides to stand up and walk around his neighborhood to hopefully think of new ideas. After he got back home, he successfully thought about a few unique and great ideas of how he could potentially set up his project.
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Dissecting a chapter of a textbook to discover key ideas within the content
Analytical thinking
True or False, creativity happens suddenly and effortlessly
False, creativity takes sustained mental effort and review
Exercising the brain with higher-level thinking reduces the risk of what disease?
Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of late-life dementia
Name the 3 types of evidence mentioned in balanced thinking?
Definitive, suggestive, inconclusive
Which strategy is demonstrated by this scenario?
Right before an exam, Angela is going through flashcards of different formulas for calculus problems. Ten minutes later, the test is handed out and Angela puts her flashcards away. She gets to a problem that looks very familiar. She thinks for a couple seconds and suddenly the formula she needed popped into her head. She quickly wrote the formula before it escaped her head.
Get it down
How can you help yourself emulate thinking skills to use on your exams?
Think not only about the content that professors are teaching but what thinking process they are using.
Which brainstorming step does this scenario demonstrate?
- Angela is jotting down as many ideas as she can possibly think in her notebook in preparation for an essay, but then erases the ideas she feels aren’t the best.
Step 1 + Step 3