Critical Thinking - Pre Activity Quiz

What do you think the phrase "critical thinking" means?

• The inclination to criticize people or situations.

• The ability to think for yourself instead of taking for granted the conclusions given by others.

• The thinking that is required to solve critical situations.

• I have no idea.

"Bias" refers to:

• I don`t know.

• Being unfair in your judgement because you favour one part over the other.

• A new tipe of cryptocurrency.

• The plural of the name "Bia".

Which of the abilities and techniques below do you think are useful for critical thinking?

• Research

• Questioning motives

• Identifying biases

• Following the crowd

Some of the actions below are manipulation techniques. Can you identify them?

• Creating social pressure

• Misdirecting the attention

• Crying

• Labeling

What is "fake news"?

• Lies told in order to mislead or to discredit a certain group of people.

• Errors.

• Mistakes.

• I`ve heard about them, but the concept isn`t clear to me.

Do you think that manipulation, fake news and other such techniques have a specific purpose or they are made just for fun?

• These problems do not exist.

• They have the puropose to obtain a gain of some sort: money, power etc.

• They are unpleasant, but don`t pose too much danger.

• Just for fun.

What does "clickbait" mean?

• I don`t know.

• A type of bait used by the fishermen.

• A title, headline and/or image that makes you click it.

• The amount of bites a click measures.

"Research" means...

• Getting lots of information about a certain topic .

• The name of a new search engine.

• Beats me.

• Searching again.

"Propaganda" is all about...

• Governments`/corporations` effort to influence the masses.

• I have no idea.

• The name of a newspaper from World War I.

• A country near Uganda.

"Deep fake" is...

• When someone fakes a deep voice.

• It`s not clar to me yet.

• A video or audio simulation of a real person made by AI.

• Someone that is fake deep down inside.