How We Defend Our Egos

• Seek objective feedback about your ego

• Work against your brain’s natural inclinations.

• Defense mechanisms are strategies we use to avoid uncomfortable realities

• All are correct

Ethnocentrism is

• •Belief that one’s race or culture is central

• •The tendency to view one’s own race or culture as central, based on the deep-seated belief that one’s own group is superior to all others.

• One’s desires, values and beliefs are often uncritically used as the norm of all judgment and experience

• All is incorrect

Methods of Fixing Belief is

• Method of Tenacity — Holding to what you believe just because you believe it

• Method of Authority — Someone higher than yourself setting your beliefs for you

• A-priori Method — Presuppositional thinking

• All answers are correct

Rationalization is?

• a defense mechanism that under lies many other defense mechanisms.

• When two ideas are out of sync and create discomfort

• Refusal to recognize any negative or threatening information

• a state of mind that blocks critical thinking, because it involves the repression of or refusal to recognize any negative or threatening information

Emotional Reasoning is?

• Avoid sarcasm and ridicule

• Relationship between words and behavior

• identify without distortion

• The process of using one’s feelings as proof of an accurate analysis of a situation

To be logical, fair and less egocentric we need to?

• Recognize defense mechanisms

• To recognize areas where we, for whatever reasons, have trouble being rational

• Recognize our inability to be rational

• All answers incorrect

How do you recognize emotional reasoning?

Empathy is?

• a set of infection control practices used to prevent transmission of diseases that can be acquired by contact with blood, body fluids, non-intact skin (including rashes), and mucous membranes

• a structure that is capable of manipulating values and attaching said values to deeper concepts.

• The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

• Define points of logical vulnerability

Precautions are?

• one of the important branches of linguistics, and deals with interpretation and meaning of the words, sentence structure, and symbols.

• Use of personal protective equipment

• preventative steps needed to be taken by healthcare team members and staff at healthcare facilities to prevent the spread of infections.

• A set of infection control practices used to prevent transmission of diseases that can be acquired by contact with blood, body fluids, non-intact skin (including rashes), and mucous membranes

What is conformity in critical thinking?