Module 1 Review

What is Critical Thinking?

100

This is a broad category of skills and attitudes used to analyze and evaluate problems in an informed way.

Critical thinking

200

Critical thinkers must provide this instead of just giving personal opinions.

Logical support or evidence

300

This lifelong process involves questioning instead of simply accepting information.

Developing critical thinking skills

400

This term means "thinking about your own thinking."

Metacognition

500

Critical thinking must meet these four standards: clarity, reasonableness, and what other quality?

Fairness

Critical Thinking Standards

100

This standard requires ideas to be clearly expressed and easily understood.

Clarity

200

This standard focuses on giving specific and exact answers to certain questions.

Precision

300

"Garbage in, garbage out" relates to this standard of thinking.

Accuracy

400

This standard ensures information directly relates to the issue being discussed.

Relevance

500

This standard requires unbiased and impartial thinking.

Fairness

Skills of Critical Thinker

100

These skills help you analyze arguments instead of relying on opinion.

Analytical skills

200

This skill involves speaking, writing, and listening effectively.

Effective communication

300

These skills involve locating reliable sources and asking precise questions.

Research and inquiry skills

400

This ability allows thinkers to welcome change and tolerate ambiguity.

Flexibility

500

This quality encourages asking questions and working collaboratively with others.

Curiosity or collaborative learning

Reason & Emotion

100

This is the process of using evidence to support a claim or conclusion.

Reason

200

This philosopher believed humans should live a life guided by reason.

Immanuel Kant

300

These two emotions can distort truth and lead to poor decisions.

Anger and fear

400

This term describes the ability to use emotions effectively in decision-making.

Emotional intelligence

500

Plato believed the human soul had one rational part and these two non-rational parts.

Emotional and physical parts

Critical Thinking in Life & AI

100

Immanuel Kant was a philosopher whose central theoretical philosophy involved reason. What were two of this key works that demonstrated the theory of practical reason?

Critique of Pure Reason and Critique of Practical Reason

200

What is the name of the AI machine that competed against two humans on the game show "Jeopardy."

Watson

300

AI was originally designed to enhance this human ability and make our lives easier through ...

Human reasoning

400

This philosophical debate asks whether machines can truly reason or feel emotion.

AI and emotion debate

500

What is defined as the computational part of the ability to achieve goals in the world?

Intelligence