TFL 333-Critical thinking strategies. QUIZ 1

Which is NOT about Critical Thinking?

• is the ability to think about one’s thinking in such a way as

  1. To recognize its strengths and weaknesses, and, as a result,

  2. To recast the thinking in improved form

• involving or exercising skilled judgment or observation

• to effectively

  identify, analyze,

  and

  evaluate

  arguments

  and truth claims; to

  discover

  and

  overcome

  personal preconceptions

  and biases;

• to

  formulate

  and

  present

  convincing

  reasons

  in support of conclusions; and to make reasonable, intelligentdecisions about what to believe and what to

  do.

What are the main Critical Thinking Standards?

• Clarity, precision, accuracy, relevance, modus ponnens, completeness, fairness

• Fairness, completeness, logical correctness, consistency, relevance, accuracy, precision, clarity

• Completeness, clarity, syllogism, deduction, induction, fairness, logical correctness, consistency, precision

• Principle of charity, clarity, fairness, completeness, logical correctness, consistency, relevance

The quality of being clear and easy to understand is...

• Relevance

• Correctness

• Clarity

• Consistency

Being exact to the necessary level of detail, specific is about...

• Fairness

• Clarity

• Deduction

• Precision

This is the tendency to see reality as centered on oneself and considered to be one of the barriers to critical thinking.

• Self-interested thinking

• self serving bias

• egocentrism

• sociocentrism

Self-serving bias

is the tendency to underrate oneself—to see oneself as worse in some respect than one actually is.

• TRUE

• FALSE

What are the two types of sociocentrism?

• Self-serving bias and group bias

• Conformism and Group Bias

• Egocentrism and Group Bias

• Egocentrism and Conformism

Something taken for granted without good reason is called ...

• Warranted assumption

• unwarranted assumption

• stereotype

• unwarranted argumnets

Relativism

is the view that truth is a matter of fact.

• TRUE

• FALSE

"Best friends from childhood will always remain best friends

You will achieve things just because you have the potential." These sentences are the examples of ...

• stereotypes

• wishful thinking

• moral bias

• egocentric thinking