Chapter 1 Online Quiz

Chapter 1 online quiz
Question 1
1 out of 1 points

Clichés help simplify the issue and get to the heart of the matter that is to be critically analyzed.
Answer

Selected Answer: FALSE

Response Feedback:
Clichés are actually barriers to critical thinking.

Question 2
1 out of 1 points

Critical thinking skills have been found to help us
Answer

Selected Answer: All these answers are correct.
Answer Feedback:
Critical thinking skills are transferable across disciplines; therefore, learning to think things through logically leads to better decisions in all areas of life.

Question 3
1 out of 1 points

Some people either defer to others or fail to take a position on a controversial issue because they are unable to evaluate conflicting views.
Answer

Selected Answer: TRUE

Response Feedback:
It is also the case that some people do take a position on a controversial issue when they are unable to evaluate conflicting views simply because they are too mentally lazy to do the work of analyzing the issue and they are too conceited to believe that their snap decision can be wrong.

Question 4
1 out of 1 points

When is an opinion reasonable?
Answer

Selected Answer: when it has logical support
Answer Feedback:
You can think of an opinion as a conclusion. A conclusion needs reasons to support it. If the reasons used to support an opinion are not all true, and if they are not assembled in a valid structure, then the opinion (even if it turns out to be correct!) is not reasonable.

Question 5
0 out of 1 points

Although some people's lives are controlled by the circumstances they happen to find themselves in, the lives of the majority of people are controlled by their own choices.
Answer

Selected Answer: TRUE

Response Feedback:
For evidence that this is so, ask the opinion of people who have lived a long time.

Question 6
1 out of 1 points

Thomas Jefferson wrote that the most important