HUM 111 Week 1 Knowledge Check

Complete the Week 1 Knowledge Check.

Week 1 Knowledge Check

The material presented below is not meant to be a comprehensive list of all you need to know in the content area. Rather it is a starting point for building your knowledge and skills. Additional study materials are recommended in each area below to help you master the material.

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Concept: CRITICAL THINKING BASICS

Materials on the concept

• Become a Fairminded Thinker
• The Sponge and Panning for Gold: Alternative Thinking Styles
• Critical Thinking to the Rescue

1.

Critical thinking is:

Remembering information read in a book.

Taking in information like a sponge.

Asking and answering critical questions in an appropriate manner.

Listening to political speeches.

2.

All of the following are traits of a critical thinker except:

Synthesizing, analyzing and evaluating information.

Determining the facts of a new situation or subject without prejudice.

Forming conclusions based on the reasonableness of what is said.

Forming beliefs to match an invented view of the world.

3.

Which of the following is NOT a critical thinking trait?

intellectual autonomy

intellectual perseverance

intellectual conformity

intellectual humility

Concept: THINKING CRITICALLY

Materials on the concept

• Stage 3: The Beginning Thinker
• The Sponge and Panning for Gold: Alternative Thinking Styles
• The First Four Stages of Development: At What Level of Thinking Would You Place Yourself?
• Intellectual Autonomy: Value Independence of Thought
• Weak-Sense and Strong-Sense Critical Thinking

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4.

One advantage that the sponge thinking approach provides is that you will be able to:

Become actively engaged by reading with a question-asking attitude.

Absorb knowledge that provides a foundation for more complicated thinking later.

Decide which information and opinions to believe and which to reject.

Experience Intellectual autonomy.

5.

One advantage of the Planning-for- Gold Approach to thinking is that it:

Examines first systematically anything that gets into your head.

Takes little practice

Emphasizes knowledge acquisition

Believes whatever is read last

6.

Weak-sense critical thinking is:

Applying critical questions to all claims, including your own.

Using critical thinking to defend your current beliefs.

Defending, evaluating and revising your current beliefs.

Thinking when you are not strong.

7.

For purposes of critical thinking, which of the following combinations describes an argument?

A combination of two people who are angry with each other and a referee.

A combination of opinions and examples of different opinions.

A combination of statements and apologies for what was done.

A combination of reasons and conclusions supporting the reasons.

8.

One trap that derails beginning critical thinkers is:

Unreflective thinking.

Intellectual empathy.

Dogmatic absolutism.

Intellectual autonomy.

9.

One cannot be fair-minded and lack intellectual autonomy because:

When we intellectually conform, we are not able to think within “accepted viewpoints.”

We are too easily swayed by others’ viewpoints.

Dependent thinking is a prerequisite to thinking within multiple perspectives.

Independent thinking is a prerequisite to thinking within multiple perspectives .

10.

Improvement in thinking may be compared to improvement in basketball, playing the guitar, or in dance because:

We always work harder at things we enjoy.

We are all natural athletes and musicians.

It is easy to change habits.

It is unlikely to take place without a conscious commitment.