Bu121 Midterm Flashcards

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What is Academic Integrity?

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Acting in a way that is honest, fair, respectful, and responsible in studies/academic work

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What are the 6 values of academic integrity?

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  • Honesty
  • Trust
  • Fairness
  • Respect
  • Responsibility
  • Courage
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What are the different types of academic misconduct?

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  • Plagiarism
  • Cheating/Copying
  • Unauthorized collaboration
  • Falsification
  • Misrepresentation
  • Forging academic record
  • Impersonation
  • Unauthorized aids
  • Improper access
  • Obstruction
  • Distribution of IP
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Plagiarisms of academic Misconduct from an indigenous lens?

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Relationally: Acknowledge that all all knowledge in connected
Reciprocity: Relationship will be mutually beneficial, everyone values the knowledge they are creating and sharing
Respect: Explicit about whose story is being told, reflect on how your work represents different people

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Competency - Professional Attributes

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  • Range of skills and qualities that contribute to an individual’s success in a professional setting
  • Crucial for personal and career development
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Competency - Adaptability

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Reacts well, changes, and easily considers new approaches

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What are the 3 characteristics of Gen AI?

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Ubiquitous: It is everywhere in all disciplines
Undetectable: Cant detect its use
Transformative: It is going to change how we live

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What is the difference between Gen AI and other search engines?

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Gen AI: A collection of patterns
Search engines: A collection of Data

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Prompts for AI

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  1. Role and goal
  2. Give clear instructions
  3. Give examples
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How can you be “the human” when using AI?

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  • Ask AI to expand and edit its information
  • Integrate your own thinking, select strengths and revise weaknesses
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What is critical thinking?

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Question, analyze, make sense of something

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3 characteristics of critical thinking

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Self Aware: Reflective and aware of biases
Curious: Open to new perspectives, challenges ideas
Independent: Listen to others and have own ideas

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3 different approaches to arguments

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Follower: Blindly accepts arguments, does not assess reasoning
Cynic: Rejects all arguments, questions all reasoning
Healthy Septic: Assess arguments based on quality of reasoning and evidence

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Why is critical thinking important?

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  • Manage information overload
  • Improve understanding in business world
  • Improve performance
  • Evaluate implications of strategies
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How can you use and improve critical thinking skills?

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  • Accept that critical thinking is hard and takes time to develop
  • Practice for transfer
  • Map it out
  • Learn a balanced and practical amount of theory
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Why do arguments make better strategies?

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All great strategies start as arguments
Logical approach: How a companies resources and activities create and capture value and what needs to be true for the strategy to succeed

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How are strategy arguments constructed?

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Constructive debate: Encourage arguing, establish rules of engagement to limit confirmation bias, change how people think, specify purpose around conversation
Interactive Visualization: Map/expose relationships between courses of actions and their outcomes
Logical Formalization: Test logic behind claims and ensure they are valid, reasonable - ensure cause and effect and use if then statements

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Key terms of AI

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Hallucinations: Inaccuracy of outputs
Opacity: Not consistent or clear (sometimes very good, sometimes very bad)
Alignment: Ensuring system matches our needs

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Implications of AI

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Develop digital literacy by recognizing and exhibiting the value and limitations of ethical use of gen AI

20
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Values and Limitations - Employment

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Positives
- Increase quality of work
- Increase productivity/efficiency
Negatives
- Decrease re employment
- Reduce jobs

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Values and Limitations - Education

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Positives
- Increase quality educations (tutors)
- Enhance human intelligence
Negatives
- Creates educational divide (not everyone has access)
- increases academic misconduct

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Values and Limitations - Media

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Positives
- New authentications
- New revenue for data holders (sell data)
Negatives
- Potential for mis/dis information
- Accelerate problems

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Values and Limitations - Cybersecurity/IP

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Positives
- Increase accessibility/speed innovation
- Ability to detect fraud
Negatives
- Increased risk for IP leaks, malware

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Values and Limitations - Diversity/Equity

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Positives
- Increased diversity of leadership
Negatives
- Reinforce or worsen biases

25
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Values and Limitations - Creativity

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Positives
-Privilege “proper english”
- Improve quality of natural ideas
Negatives
- Reduce “individual voice”

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What is evidence?

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A statement that answers why a claim is true
- Statistics, anecdotes, past events etc

Claim without evidence = Opinion
Claim with evidence = Argument

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How do you find evidence?

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Cue words
- Because, as a result, for example, studies show

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How is evidence assessed?

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Accuracy - Credible
Precision - Numbers, quotes, not talking about irrelevant things
Sufficiency - A single piece of data is not enough
Representatives - whose Impacted/involved
Authority - Is this a expert opinion
Clarity of expression - Interpret the data for the reader, give meaning

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4 Evidence Based Practice

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Do do:
- “Gut feel”
- Obsolete traditions
- Mimicking
- HIPPO (highest paid persons opinion)

Do:
- Scientific Literature (Empirical studies)
- Organizational (Internal data - historical)
- Stakeholders (values and concerns, not just looking at the leader)
- Practitioners (professional expertise)

30
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Misinformation vs Disinformation

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Misinformation: Incorrect or misleading information
Disinformation: False information spread deliberately with intent

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Fallacies used to disinform

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Hasty Generalization:Using data from a small demographic and applying it to a larger one - unrepresentative
Red Herring: Avoiding key issues by avoiding opposing arguments
Cherry picking: Only a select amount of evidence is presented, evidence that would go against the argument is withheld
False appeal to authority: Taking someones advice because they are an expert/famous/older etc
Argumentum ad populm: Bandwagon effect
Argumentum ad Hominum: An attack to the character of a person rather than their argument (Against the Man)
Argumentum ad Misericordim: Using emotion to prove an argument - it will benefit someone/stop hurting someone (Appeal to pity)

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Cognitive biases and blindspots

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  • Belief preservation/confirmation bias
  • Seek evidence that supports what we believe and do not seek evidence that goes against it
  • rate evidence as good or bad
  • stick with our beliefs even in the face of overwhelming contrary evidence as long as we can find some support
    They avoid
  • Put effort into finding evidence that contradicts what you believe in
  • Wen analyzing evidence give extra attention to arguments that take an apposing view
  • Be willing to change your mind when the evidence is clear