TRENDS REVIEW

This skills refer to our ability to understand and explain the meaning or importance of various things we encounter in life.

• Analysis

• Inference

• Explanation

• Interpretation

This skills identify inferential relationships among statements and beliefs

• Interpretation

• Analysis

• Evaluation

• Self-regulation

This critical thinking skills identify and gather information necessary in drawing reasonable conclusions and forming conjectures and hypotheses.

To clearly and coherently present the result of one's reasoning is called

TRUE or FALSE: Argumentation involves only statements which are linguistic expressions that are either true or false.

• TRUE

• FALSE

TRUE or FALSE: An argument involves a premise (or a set of premises) which is a staement provides support to a claim; and a conclusion which is a statement expressing a claim.

• TRUE

• FALSE

To assess the credibility of statements and the logical strength of the inferential relationships among the arguments is called __________

• Evaluation

• Interpretation

• Inference

• Analysis

TRUE or FALSE: There are two types of reasoning: systematic and inquisitive reasoning.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Which of the following is NOT a characteristics of critical thinking?

• Critical thinking is concerned with correct reasoning

• Critical thinking is deals with argumentation

• Critical thinking is important in everyday decision making

• Critical thinking deals with the coherence of the structure of reasoning and the relevance of the content of reasoning

Enumerate the two types of reasoning