CTKT 1
The use of critical thinking to defend your current beliefs.
What is Weak Sense of Critical Thinking?
A method to thinking that focuses on finding the information that is valuable.
What is Panning for Gold Method?
The use of critical thinking to evaluate all claims and beliefs, especially your own.
What is Strong Sense of Critical Thinking?
The ability to ask interrelated critical questions, to ask and answer these critical questions; and desire to actively use the critical questions.
What is Critical Thinking?
A method to thinking that focuses on absorbing information.
What is Sponge Method?
Consists of a conclusion and the reasons meant to support it.
What is an Argument?
An unsupported claim. A statement or judgement that cannot be proven true or false.
What is an Opinion?
A question or controversy responsible for the conversation or discussion.
What is an Issue?
The message that the speaker or writer wishes you to accept.
What is a Conclusion?
Reasons are explanations of rationales for why we should believe a particular conclusion.
What is a Reason?
Bias is prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.
What is Bias?
Values are ideas, often unstated, that people see as worthwhile. They provide standards of conduct by which we measure the quality of human behavior.
What are Values?
Ambiguity refers to the existence of multiple possible meanings for a word or phrase.
What is Ambiguity?
Privilege is a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group.
What is Privilege?
An assumption is a belief, usually unstated, that is taken for granted and supports the reasoning.
What is an Assumption?