Army Thinking and Problem Solving

An ______ is information used in decision making that is accepted as true in the absence of facts but cannot be verified.

______ are verifiable pieces of information that have objective reality and form the foundation on which leaders base solutions to problems

• Assumptions

• Problems

• Facts

• Opinions

Well-Structured Problems are very complex, nonlinear, and dynamic and difficult to understand and solve.

• True

• False

_______________ allows a richer understanding of an operational environment and problems, for the planning team to examine the situation from the perspectives of other actors in the operational environment view a situation or problem. 

• Meta questioning

• Four ways of seeing

• Brainstorming, Researching and Mind Mapping

• Questioning of Assumptions

_______ is a deliberate process of thought whose purpose is to improve our thought.

_______________ indicates a preconceived notion about someone or something.

• Biases

• Fallacies

• Information

• Relavance

Match the basic thinking ability with its description

• Reasoning

• The ability to process information and formulate explanations to observed actions and events

• Pattern Recognition

• Arranging data by defined rules in a meaningful order

• Information Ordering

• Detecting and Imposing patterns on entities and events to understand them

Fallacies of ______ are evidence or examples that irrelevant to the argument at hand.