Module 1-3 (Critical Thinking)

Question 1

Recognize when to doubt claims that do not merit investigation.

Answer 1

Healthy Skepticism

Question 2

Restrain one’s desire to believe because of social pressures to conform.

Answer 2

Free Thinking

Question 3

Do the necessary study to reach a sufficient level of understanding.

Answer 3

High Motivation

Question 4

Stop thinking that complex issues can be reduced to matters of right and wrong.

Answer 4

Intellectual Humility

Question 5

How can Critical Thinking be both “open-minded” and still maintain a healthy sense of skepticism? Critical Thinkers…

A. Seek out facts, information sources and reasoning to support issues you intend to judge.

B. Examine issues from as many sides as possible.

C. Rationality look for the good and bad points of the various sides to be examined.

D. Do not accept the fact that you may be in error ourselves.

Answer 5

A. Seek out facts, information sources and reasoning to support issues you intend to judge.

B. Examine issues from as many sides as possible.

C. Rationality look for the good and bad points of the various sides to be examined.

Question 6

Recognizing that one should not claim more one actually knows.

Answer 6

Intellectual Humility

Question 7

Be true to your own thinking.

Answer 7

Intellectual Courage

Question 8

Imaginatively put oneself in the place of others.

Answer 8

Intellectual Empathy

Question 9

Having rational control of one’s beliefs, values, and inference.

Answer 9

Intellectual Autonomy

Question 10

Recognition of the need to be true to one’s own thinking.

Answer 10

Intellectual Integrity

Question 11

Struggle with confusion and unsettled questions over extended period.

Answer 11

Intellectual Perseverance

Question 12

With proper encouragement, people can learn to think for themselves.

Answer 12

Confidence in Reason

Question 13

Consciousness of the need to treat all viewpoints alike.

Answer 13

Fair-Mindedness

Question 14

Without this you cannot tell anything about the topic.

Answer 14

Clarity

Question 15

You may check for this by asking, “How can you find out if that is true?”

Answer 15

Accuracy

Question 16

You man check for this by asking, “ Could you be more specific?”

Answer 16

Precision

Question 17

You may check for this by asking, “How does that bear on the issue?”

Answer 17

Relevance

Question 18

Another term for superficial.

Answer 18

Depth

Question 19

Only recognizes the insights of one side of the question.

Answer 19

Breadth

Question 20

Not mutually supporting and/or contradictory.

Answer 20

Logic

Question 21

Treating all relevant viewpoints alike.

Answer 21

Fairness

Question 22

Air-traffic controllers often have difficulty making good judgments after long hours on duty.

Answer 22

Physical & Emotional Hindrances

Question 23

Be willing to investigate viewpoints different from their own view.

Answer 23

Open-Mindedness