Week 2 Critical Thinking Complete Actual Exam Questions With Correct Answers.

Egocentric - correct answer form of stereotyping which holds ones own characteristics (religion, race, customs, nationality, sex etc) as superior to others Sociocentric - correct answer stereotyping but from a group level Elements of Thought - Purpose - correct answer What am I trying to accomplish? What is my central aim? My purpose? Elements of Thought - Information - correct answer What information am I using in coming to that conclusion? What experience have I had to support this claim? What information do I need to settle the question? Elements of Thought - Inferences/Conclusion - correct answer How did I reach this conclusion? Is there another way to interpret the information? Elements of Thought - Concepts - correct answer What is the main idea here? Could I explain this idea? Elements of Thought - Assumptions - correct answer What am I taking for granted? What assumption has led me to that conclusion? Elements of Thought - Implications/Consequences - correct answer If someone accepted my position, what would be the implications? What am I implying? Elements of Thought - Points of View - correct answer From what point of view am I looking at this issue? Is there another point of view I should consider? Elements of Thought - Questions - correct answer What question am I raising? What question am I addressing? Deceptive Arguments - Bandwagon - correct answer Commonly held beliefs are not necessarily correct beliefs Deceptive Arguments - Scare tactics - correct answer The threat that if you don't do or don't believe this something terrible will happen Deceptive Arguments - Straw-person - correct answer Distorting and exaggerating an opponents argument and ideas to make one's own seem stronger Deceptive Arguments - Personal attack - correct answer Critique aimed at the person and not the ideas Deceptive Arguments - Testimonial - correct answer Using quotes, references etc to support your argument often from dubious sources - (check the legitimacy of your sources) Deceptive Arguments - Slanters - correct answer Use of embellished and provocative language Deceptive Arguments - Generalizations - correct answer Use of statistics or facts to generalize about a population, place or thing Deceptive Arguments - Categorical statements - correct answer Stating something in a way implying that there can be no argument Intellectual Standards - Clarity - correct answer In order to adequately address the question, we would need to have a clearer understanding of what the person asking the question is considering the "problem" to be. Intellectual Standards - Accuracy - correct answer Is that really true? How could we check that? How could we find out if that is true? Intellectual Standards - Precision - correct answer Could you give me more details? Could you be more specific? A statement can be both clear and accurate, but not precise. Intellectual Standards - Relevance - correct answer How is that connected to the question? How does that bear on the issue? A statement can be clear, accurate, and precise, but not relevant to the question at issue. Intellectual Standards - Depth - correct answer How does your answer address the complexities in the question? How are you taking into account the problems in the question? Is that dealing with the most significant factors? A statement can be clear, accurate, precise, and relevant, but superficial (that is, lack depth). Intellectual Standards - Breadth - correct answer Do we need to consider another point of view? Is there another way to look at this question? A line of reasoning may be clear, accurate, precise, relevant, and deep, but lack breadth Intellectual Standards - Logic - correct answer When we think, we bring a variety of thoughts together into some order When the combination of thoughts is mutually supporting and make sense in combination, the thinking is "logical"