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Module 1

What is Critical Thinking?

QuestionAnswer
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
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