Analytical Skills Avoid Pitfall Flashcards
_____ is a mental process that is subject to numerous influences.
a. Intellectual Standards
b. Critical Thinking
c. Organizational Bias
d. Creative Thinking
b. Critical Thinking
What is pattern recognition?
Detecting and Imposing
patterns on entities and
events to understand them
What is reasoning?
The ability to process
information and formulate
explanations to observed
actions and events
What is Information Ordering?
Arranging data by defined
rules in a meaningful order
______ are evidence or examples that are irrelevant to the argument at hand.
a. Fallacies of Omission
b. Fallacies of Argumentum
c. Fallacies of Assumption
d. Fallacies of Relevance
d. Fallacies of Relevance
_____ are the degrees of reliability, completeness, and consistency that vary from source to
source and from report to report.
a. Personal Biases
b. Organizational Biases
c. Culture Biases
d. Cognitive Biases
d. Cognitive Biases
_______are when necessary material is left out of the conclusion or inference.
a. Fallacies of Omission
b. Fallacies of Argumentum
c. Fallacies of Assumption
d. Fallacies of Relevance
a. Fallacies of Omission
_____ method of processing information that relies on an analogy to compare the similarities between two specific entities.
a. Inductive
b. Analogical
c. Deductive
d. Abductive
b. Analogical
True/False: Sorting, Matrices, and Event mapping are types of Advance Structured Analytical
Techniques.
False
_______ reasoning is looking at given factual information or data for a pattern or trend and inferring the trend will continue.
a. Inductive
b. Analogical
c. Deductive
d. Abductive
a. Inductive
______ indicates a preconceived notion about someone or something.
a. Biases
b. Fallacies
c. Information
d. Relevance
a. Biases
A _______________ is the inability to see things through the eyes of someone from another country or culture.
a. Personal Biases
b. Organizational Biases
c. Culture Biases
d. Cognitive Biases
c. Cultural Biases
_______reasoning is similar to inductive reasoning since conclusions are based on probabilities or “guessing.
a. Inductive
b. Analogical
c. Deductive
d. Abductive
c. Deductive
