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HUM 115 Ch. 1Critical Thinking - correct answer ✔✔Thinking that involves exercises skilled judgement or observation.
A Good Critical Thinker - correct answer ✔✔Has the cognitive skills and intellectual dispositions needed
to effectively identify, analyze and evaluate arguments and truth claims.
Clarity - correct answer ✔✔That which is true can be expressed clearly. Clarity in expression is a sign of
intelligence. Obscurity in expression is a sign that one doesn't really understand the idea one is
expressing.
Precision - correct answer ✔✔Close attention to detail. Specific definitions and specific questions. Ex: is
abortion wrong? That's vague. Should abortion be legal and is it moral? Are more specific.
Accuracy - correct answer ✔✔Making sure your information and beliefs are true. One cannot reason
correctly with false information.
Revelance - correct answer ✔✔Statements are about the way the world is; what makes something true
is the way the world is. A relevant point restricts itself to the "piece of the world" in question. Irrelevance
can distract people from the point but never helps to truly prove the point. A lawyer putting on his shirt
wrong does not entail that his client is guilty.
Consitency - correct answer ✔✔non-contradiction. Critical thinking avoids "Practical
inconsistency/hypocrisy" and "Logical inconsistency/irrationality."
Practical Inconsistency/Hypocrisy - correct answer ✔✔saying one thing and doing another.
Logical Inconsistency/Irrationality - correct answer ✔✔believing two things that can't be simultaneously
true.
, Logical Correctness - correct answer ✔✔sound reasoning/valid inferences. Deriving that-and only that-
which can be justifiably derived from statements/premises.
Completeness - correct answer ✔✔good critical thinking is never done hastily; explore the issue.
Fairness - correct answer ✔✔open-minded, impartial, non-biased. Don't dismiss something just because
it's new or it's contrary to something you already believe.
Benefits of critical thinking - correct answer ✔✔the main purpose of your education is to teach you how
to live. How to.....
evaluate your own beliefs and develop your belief set.
understand and evaluate the beliefs/positions/arguments of others.
ultimately develop a belief system that corresponds to the way the world is and leads to an ethical and
meaningful life.
True. - correct answer ✔✔True/False. Employers are more concerned with hiring someone who can
reason efficiently (so they can figure out the best way to handle whatever the job throws at them), not
someone who has been taught a specific skill.
True. - correct answer ✔✔True/False. Specifically in life critical thinking can help us.....
...avoid bad personal decisions.
...make informed political decisions.
...attain personal enrichment.
...behave morally.
A lack of critical thinking promoted centuries of oppression (slavery) and erroneous assumptions (the
earth is flat)
Egocentrism (Barrier to Critical Thinking) - correct answer ✔✔the tendency to see reality as centered on
oneself. Includes Self-interested thinking and self-serving bias.
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