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Module 1
What is Critical Thinking?
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Breaking thinking down into its component parts. | Analyzing |
| Identifying thinking's weaknesses while recognizing its strengths | Assess |
| Improving one's own thinking to make it better. | Reconstruct |
| self-directed self-disciplined self-monitored self-corrective | Critical Thinking |
| View everything in relationship to oneself | Egocentrism |
| Assumption that one's own social group is inherently superior to all others | Sociocentrism |
| Spontaneous and non-reflective | First-order thinking (ordinary thinking) |
| First-order thinking that is consciously realized (i.e., analyzed, assessed, and reconstructed) | Second-order thinking (critical thinking) |
| Contains insight, prejudice, good and bad reasoning | First-order thinking (ordinary thinking) |
| Ignore flaws in thinking | Weak sense critical thinking |
| Win an argument through trickery and deceit | Weak sense critical thinking |
| Does no consider alternate viewpoints | Weak sense critical thinking |
| Lacks fair mindedness | Weak sense critical thinking |
| Low rhetorical skills, hide or distort evidence | Weak sense critical thinking |
| Employs emotinalism | Weak sense critical thinking |
| Fair and Just | Strong sense critical thinking |
| Ethical, empathize with other viewpoints, entertain arguments they don't agree with | Strong sense critical thinking |
| Change views when supported with reasoning | Strong sense critical thinking |
| Fair minded and critical thinking skills | Strong sense critical thinking |
| Higher order thinking | Strong sense critical thinking |
| To bring an unbiased and unprejudiced perspective to all viewpoints relevant to a situation | Fair-mindedness |
| Uninfluenced by whatever advantage one or one's social group enjoys | Fair-mindedness |
| Adherence to intellectual standards (e.g., accuracy, sound logic, clarity, and depth of thought) | Fair-mindedness |
| Consider all relevant opinions equally without regard to one's own sentiments or selfish interests | Fair-mindedness |
| See yourself as right and just | intellectual unfairness |
| Involves an element of self-deception | intellectual unfairness |
| Feel no responsibility to represent viewpoints with which they disagree fairly and accurately | intellectual unfairness |
| Requires the critical thinker to simultaneously embody certain key intellectual traits | Fair-mindedness |
| Recognizes one does not know everything, conscious of bias and prejudices | Intellectual humility |
| Aware of limitations of viewpoints, aware egocentrism is self-deceiving, recognizes one should claim only what they know | Intellectual humility |
| Intellectual humility | Intellectual arrogance |
| No insight into self-deception or limitations of one's viewpoints, over estimates how much one knows | Intellectual arrogance |
| Intellectual courage | confronts ideas, beliefs with fairness, examines beliefs which one has negative feelings about, challenges popular beliefs |
| Recognizes ideas society deems dangerous or absurd to hold some truth | Intellectual courage |
| Confronts false ideas embraced by social groups | Intellectual courage |
| Intellectual cowardice | Fear of ideas that do not conform to one's own |
| Intellectual cowardice | Threatened by ideas that conflict with self-identity (conservative, liberal, etc). |
| Intellectual cowardice | Intellectual courage |
| Intellectual empathy | Inhabits the perspectives of others in order to understand them, reconstruct others viewpoints and reasoning |
| Ability to reason from assumptions and ideas not one's own | Intellectual empathy |
| Intellectual self-centeredness | Thinking centered on self, unable to understand others thoughts, won't consider problems from a vantage point other than their own |
| Intellectual self-centeredness | Intellectual empathy |
| Intellectual integrity | Intellectual dishonesty |
| Intellectual dishonesty | Unconscious of contradictions, inconsistencies, hides hypocrisy from self, egocentric mind, regard self as fair even when expecting others to follow |
| Expect others to follow more rigorous standards than those we impose on themselves | Intellectual dishonesty |
| Intellectual integrity | Admits flaws and inconsistencies in thinking |
| Identify weakness in thinking | Intellectual integrity |
| Holds self to follow standards that they expect others to meet | Intellectual integrity |
| Practices what they preach | Intellectual integrity |
| Intellectual Integrity | Intellectual dishonesty |
| Intellectual perseverance | Intellectual laziness |
| Intellectual laziness | Gives up quickly when confronted with challenges, low tolerance for struggle or frustration |
| Intellectual perseverance | Does not give up when problems are complicated, does not look for easy solutions, works through complexities, reasons through complex issues |
| Confidence in reason | Think for themselves, be reasonable, encourages people to arrive at their own conclusions, individual and society's interest are served by reason. |
| Intellectual distrust of reason | Lack of confidence in reason, assert the truth of own beliefs even though they are flawed |
| Intellectual distrust of reason | Confidence in reason |
| Intellectual conformity | Intellectual dependence, society rewards conformity of thought which perpuates the status quo: Political, economic, intellectual |
| Think for oneself, adheres to standards of rationality, rely's on one's own reasoning when deciding what or what not to do, accept others views as long as they are reasonable in the light of evidence | Intellectual autonomy |
| Three functions of the mind | Thinking, feeling, wanting |
| Creates meaning, sort events in our lives into categories, finds patterns | Thinking |
| Feeling | Monitors meanings created by thinking, evaluates life's events as positive or negative |
| Wanting | Energy into action, defines what is desirable and what is possible, what is and what is not worth seeking |
| judging perceiving analyzing clarifying determining comparing synthesizing | Thinking |
| Thinking | Makes sense of the world |
| Feeling | happy sad depressed anxious stressed calm worried excited |
| Tells us how we are doing | Feeling |
| goals desires purposes agendas values motives | Wanting |
| Drives us to act as we do | Wanting |