Critical Thinking Quiz1
HUMN 150- ONLINE QUIZ 1
Rate each of the following statements as TRUE or FALSE. Justify your answer with an example or explanation to prove and illustrate your understanding. DO NOT OMIT THIS PART OF THE TEST. True/False answers can be guessed. But when you defend your answer by example or explanation, you demonstrate not only your memory and understanding but also that you can apply what you have learned. The first question is answered for you.
FALSE1. Observation skills are learned mainly through book learning. Support for Answer: On the contrary, observation is learned from participation, which is more active and spontaneous than reading. Samuel Scudder learned observing through the active coaching of his teacher Agassiz as well as from his own efforts, curiosity, and persistence in studying his fish.
TRUE 2. The standard academic study of all the physical sciences requires observation skills, whether in the field or laboratory. Support for Answer: Observation skills are needed everywhere in everyday life, including physical sciences. Observation skills help you do experiments and find out the true meaning of things.
TRUE 3. In thinking, the correctness or our conclusions usually depends on the clarity of our perceptions. Support for Answer: Our perceptions are thoroughly thought out thus, if we have done enough observations and inductive reasoning, we should be correct.
TRUE_4. Observation skills can be extended to observing how you observe. Support for Answer: You always need to watch how you are observing things. It has happened since we were first born, learning how to walk, talk, and eat. Learning takes the most observing and making sure you are doing it right is where you are observing how you observe.
TRUE_5. An insight is an experience of understanding that can occur spontaneously after we observe something intently for a while. One illustration of this experience is the story of Archimedes, who, while in his
Rate each of the following statements as TRUE or FALSE. Justify your answer with an example or explanation to prove and illustrate your understanding. DO NOT OMIT THIS PART OF THE TEST. True/False answers can be guessed. But when you defend your answer by example or explanation, you demonstrate not only your memory and understanding but also that you can apply what you have learned. The first question is answered for you.
FALSE1. Observation skills are learned mainly through book learning. Support for Answer: On the contrary, observation is learned from participation, which is more active and spontaneous than reading. Samuel Scudder learned observing through the active coaching of his teacher Agassiz as well as from his own efforts, curiosity, and persistence in studying his fish.
TRUE 2. The standard academic study of all the physical sciences requires observation skills, whether in the field or laboratory. Support for Answer: Observation skills are needed everywhere in everyday life, including physical sciences. Observation skills help you do experiments and find out the true meaning of things.
TRUE 3. In thinking, the correctness or our conclusions usually depends on the clarity of our perceptions. Support for Answer: Our perceptions are thoroughly thought out thus, if we have done enough observations and inductive reasoning, we should be correct.
TRUE_4. Observation skills can be extended to observing how you observe. Support for Answer: You always need to watch how you are observing things. It has happened since we were first born, learning how to walk, talk, and eat. Learning takes the most observing and making sure you are doing it right is where you are observing how you observe.
TRUE_5. An insight is an experience of understanding that can occur spontaneously after we observe something intently for a while. One illustration of this experience is the story of Archimedes, who, while in his