Fair mindedness - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Characteristics: Open-mindedness, Healthy skepticism, Intellectual humility, Free thinking, High motivation Open-mindedness: a willingness to investigate viewpoints different from one's own *Actively listening & thinking about an idea Healthy skepticism: causes one to ask questions instead of jumping on the bandwagon Intellectual humility: means adhering tentatively to recently acquired opinions; being prepared to examine new evidence and arguments Free thinki...

Accuracy - Statements can be clear, but not accurate Ad hominem fallacy - Criticizes the person making the argument Ad Populum, bandwagon - Appeals to the popularity of a claim as a reason to accept it Argument from ignorance - Claims that something is true brocade it has not been proven false Basic Human Limitations apply to everyone and include what 5 things? - 1. Confirmation bias and selective thinking 2. False memories and confabulation 3. Personal biases and prejudices 4. Physical ...

IMPEDIMENTS/BAD HABITS TO SOUND THINKING: - - Making generalizations unsupported by evidence - Letting stereotypes shape our thinking - Viewing the world from one fixed vantage point - Forming false beliefs - Dismissing or attacking viewpoints that conflict with our own - Thinking deceptively about our own experiences EGOCENTRISM: - the tendency to view everything in relationship to oneself. SOCIOCENTRISM: - the assumption that one's own social group is inherently superior to all others...

IMPEDIMENTS/BAD HABITS TO SOUND THINKING: - - Making generalizations unsupported by evidence - Letting stereotypes shape our thinking - Viewing the world from one fixed vantage point - Forming false beliefs - Dismissing or attacking viewpoints that conflict with our own - Thinking deceptively about our own experiences EGOCENTRISM: - the tendency to view everything in relationship to oneself. SOCIOCENTRISM: - the assumption that one's own social group is inherently superior to all others...

IMPEDIMENTS/BAD HABITS TO SOUND THINKING: - Making generalizations unsupported by evidence - Letting stereotypes shape our thinking - Viewing the world from one fixed vantage point - Forming false beliefs - Dismissing or attacking viewpoints that conflict with our own - Thinking deceptively about our own experiences EGOCENTRISM: the tendency to view everything in relationship to oneself. SOCIOCENTRISM: the assumption that one's own social group is inherently superior to al...

IMPEDIMENTS/BAD HABITS TO SOUND THINKING: - - Making generalizations unsupported by evidence - Letting stereotypes shape our thinking - Viewing the world from one fixed vantage point - Forming false beliefs - Dismissing or attacking viewpoints that conflict with our own - Thinking deceptively about our own experiences EGOCENTRISM: - the tendency to view everything in relationship to oneself. SOCIOCENTRISM: - the assumption that one's own social group is inherently superior to all others...

Critical thinking comprises three interlinking dimensions Analyzing, evaluating, and improving Critical thinking is characteristically self-directed, self-disciplined, self-monitored, self-corrective Stereotype A fixed or a oversimplified conception of a person, group, or idea Egocentrism the tendency to view everything in relationship to oneself Sociocentrism assumption that one's own social group is inherently superior to all others First-order think...

Reasons offered in support of a claim are referred to as - evidence. Personal experiences, research studies, and statements by experts or authorities are all examples of - information that can be used as evidence Haley said, "Lots of studies support the dual process theory of thinking." Dana replied, "Thinking is thinking. I don't believe there is more than one type of thinking. Anyway, dual process theory is just a theory." Dana does NOT realize that: - some theories are better than ...

EDUC 1300 Learning Framework aspects of critical thinking unreflective thinker, novice or beginning thinker, advanced thinker unreflective thinker someone who is careless, undisciplined, passive, conforming, self-centered, and unfair in thought novice or beginning thinker one who is active, persistent, and courageous-- someone who is empathetic to differing points of view. You rely on questioning and explaining to begin to build a routine, consistent practice of critical thinking advanc...

What is critical thinking? - Analyzing, assessing, and reconstructing or own thinking to make it better. Barriers to critical thinking - Egocentrism & sociocentrisim Egocentrism - Seeing things in relation to ones self Sociocentrisim - The assumption that ones own social group is superior to all others. First Order Thinking - Ordinary thinking that is not reflective Second Order Thinking - Critical Thinking Strong sense critical thinking - Higher order thinking Weak sense critical thinkin...