Ch 7 Thinking and Information Literacy

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Mental activity that goes on in the brain when a person is organizing and attempting to understand information and communicate information to others.

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Thinking

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Which of these is NOT a thinking process we discussed? Creative Thinking, Analytical Thinking, Critical Thinking, Reparative Thinking

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Reparative Thinking

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______________________ is the act of combining existing ideas, objects, or behaviors in a new way.

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Creative Thinking

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To use _____________ thinking is to take complex situations and be able to see and understand their component parts.

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Analytical

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To evaluate the quality of information in order to make a sound or reasoned judgment about its bias, usefulness or accuracy is a form of...

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Information Literacy

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Jay is a computer scientist for a major IT company. Jay's job is to look for ways to hack into the company's own systems. Why does the company employ Jay in this way?

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A problem must be recognized as a threat in order to prevent or fix it.

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Jay is a computer scientist for a major IT company. Jay's job is to look for ways to hack into the company's own systems. What type of thinking is jay employing?

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Critical Thinking

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To be aware of our critical, creative and analytical thinking processes is to engage in _______________.

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Metacognition

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Submitting only your own words for a class writing assignment (rather than copying off a website) is an aspect of effective ____________________.

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Information Ethics

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____________ includes the act of evaluating an information source for its accuracy or bias.

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Critical Literacy