Grant Anderson Psychology 101 Mid-term Essay Paper 10/27/2008 The Eight Guidelines to Critical Thinking In the discipline of Psychology‚ there are eight guidelines to critical thinking. This essay will discuss all of them with examples to help understand each one. The first is to Ask Questions: Be willing to wonder (Wade & Travis‚ 2008 p.8). Young children may ask questions such as‚ “Why is the sky blue Mommy?” “Why doesn’t the plane fall?” Why don’t pigs
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Capabilities The relevant capabilities to my learning and personal goals are literacy and creative and critical thinking. Literacy is communicating to people in a variety of contexts. You have to ask questions‚ express opinions‚ and take different point of views into account. You have to be able to use language with increasing information‚ clarity‚ accuracy and sustainability for a range of audiences‚ contexts and purposes. You will engage with‚ and reflect on‚ the ways in which texts are created
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Role of Language in Critical Thinking The role of language in critical thinking is a delicate and multipart instrument used to communicate different things in to two basic categories: information and emotion. As affirmed by Kirby and Goodpaster‚ (1999) "We think with words. As we read this‚ we are using language to think. We have defined thinking broadly as the activity of the brain that can potentially be communicated. Although we may think in other ways besides language‚ such as with images or
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beginning to examine arguments‚ or‚ stated more accurately‚ "would-be arguments‚" where people advance reasons for their beliefs that in fact do not support them. There are two main types of pseudoreasoning: those that appeal to emotions and those constructed like real arguments but failing in the essential task of providing real support. Lessons 10 and 11 will examine pseudoreasoning types that appeal to emotions. Lesson 12 will study pseudoreasoning types constructed like real arguments. Because pseudoreasoning
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Department of Global Business and Transportation Ethics‚ Critical Thinking‚ and Communications Introduction “If you deliver good information you’re relevant.”1 It matters little how well we know a subject if we lack an ability to think critically about it‚ and effectively communicate the results of that thinking. Ethics underpin and are essential to being able to do these two things. These three items – ethics‚ critical thinking‚ and communications – are essential if we are to resolve the
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The intellectual standards of critical thinking are the ability to assess one’s own reasoning. To be good at assessment to take apart in thinking‚ examining and with respect to standard of quality. The following is the list for intellectual standards are clarity‚ relevance‚ logicalness‚ accuracy‚ depth‚ significance‚ precision‚ breadth‚ and fairness. The intellectual standards goal is for the goal is for these questions to become spontaneous in thinking that they form a natural part of our inner
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Critical thinking and discussion question Question 2 What are the economic and political arguments for regional economic integration? Given these arguments‚ why don’t we see more substantial examples of integration in the world economy? Unrestricted free trade allows countries to specialize in the production of goods and services that they can produce most efficiently. If this happens as the result of economic integration within a geographic region‚ the net effect is greater prosperity
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“crimestop” -“Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short ‚ as though by instinct‚ at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies‚ of failing to perceive logical errors‚ of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are
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Running head: Critical Thinking Case Study Critical Thinking Case Study Charlene Perno University of Phoenix Analysis AcuScan has been in the business of Retinal security scanning for a decade and is now looking to expand in an every changing market. Revenue for AcuScan has decrease due to an only 40% of the market share. The company is looking to expand with a new product‚ which will deal with more retail stores. The company has not added any products since
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societies norms as a crime isan action that constitutes an offense that may be prosecuted and is punishable by law. Critical Thinking Questions 1. Emile Durkheim argues that deviance is beneficial to society in a number of ways‚ such as showing us where the boundaries of acceptable behavior are and that it can bring a group together. Do you agree or disagree with his argument that deviance can be beneficial? Why? 2. If you were going to study some aspect of crime‚ what research method would you
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