CTQ - Fall 2023 - 8:00 AM

According to the book, Critical Thinking in a Nutshell, critical thinking is an essential component of:

• Life

• Authority

• Common Wisdom

• Human Progress

Rather than defend a certain power structure, which Greek scholar taught his students to seek out the truth?

• Plato

• Diogenes

• Socrates

• Aristotle

What is the purpose of Critical Thinking?

• To prove to others that you're correct

• To feel confident in yourself when you get to the right answer

• To attain the truth

• To show you're intelligent

Which organization created this best-known definition of the concept of critical thinking: “Purposeful, self-regulatory, judgment which results in interpretation, analysis, evaluation, and inference, as well as an explanation of the evidential, conceptual, methodological, criteriological, or contextual considerations upon which that judgment is based.”

• Foundation for Critical Thinking

• The Delphi Project

• Center for Critical Thinking

• The TeachThought Taxonomy for Understanding

What two actions do strong critical thinkers go through to use their full force of reasoning toward resolving a real-world problem?

• Study and read about the issue

• Interview others and study their responses

• Consult with mentors

• Gather and categorize the evidence they uncover

According to the book, what is the key element of Critical Thinking?

• Being empathetic

• Being smart

• Being openminded

• Being unreleting

Another approach to defining critical thinking is to look at:

• What it isn't

• The little-known details

• What others have uncovered

• None of the above

Perception is the first step to critical thinking.

• True

• False

The author opens Chapter 2 with a story about an international company that did not practice Critical Thinking, creating a costly error that sent its market share for its product down drastically in a few short years. Name the company and the product.

• Bubble Yum (Hershey Company)

• Caalytic Converter (Englehard Corp)

• Lego Racers (Lego Group)

• Betamax (Sony)

What are the prominent personality traits in a critical thinker?

• Openmindedness

• Humility

• Empathy

• None of the above

• All of the above