Chapter 1

Question 0

Critical Thinking Standards (8)

Answer 0

Clarity, Precision, Accuracy, Relevance, Consistency, Logical Correctness, Completeness, Fairness

Question 1

Critical Thinking

Answer 1

disciplined thinking governed by clear intellectual standards

Question 2

Logical Inconsistency

Answer 2

Saying or believing inconsistent things

Question 3

Practical Inconsistency

Answer 3

Saying one thing and doing another

Question 4

Egocentrism

Answer 4

Self-centered, to view own interests, ideas, values superior to everyone else’s

Question 5

Self-interested Thinking

Answer 5

To accept and defend beliefs that align with one’s self-interest

Question 6

Superiority Bias

Answer 6

The tendency to overrate oneself

Question 7

Sociocentrism

Answer 7

Group-centered thinking

Question 8

Group Bias

Answer 8

To see one’s own group as better than others

Question 9

Warranted Assumption

Answer 9

An assumption based in good reason

Question 10

Hasty Generalization

Answer 10

Drawing conclusions about a large amount of things through a small sample

Question 11

Relativism

Answer 11

The view that truth is a matter of opinion

Question 12

Subjectivism

Answer 12

The view that truth is a matter of individual opinion

Question 13

Cultural Relativism

Answer 13

The view that truth is a matter of social or cultural opinion

Question 14

Moral Subjectivism

Answer 14

The view that what is morally right and good for an individual is right for them

Question 15

Cultural Moral Relativism

Answer 15

The view that what is morally right and good for an individual is whatever that individual’s society or culture believes is morally right or good