CRITICAL THINKING: AN EXTENDED DEFINITION Petress‚ Ken < http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3673/is_200404/ai_n9345203> Critical thinking is a pervasive academic literature term that is seldom clearly or comprehensively defined. The definitions that are available in various sources are quite disparate and are often narrowly field dependent. "Definitions tend to so broad they are not always helpful in the sense of defining a concrete entity."1 For a term that is often expressed
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educated some conventional values as well as to exit the cyberspace in order to come back their real lives. The critical response will argue the authors’ weak point that spoken language skills of young people have dived because of spending all day texting and the authors’ strong point that youths’ outbursts at each other in the virtual world may cause serious results. In terms of the authors’ weak point‚ Nikolovska.M and Réseau.A are too pessimistic to state that an explosion in text-messaging of youths
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Roger Sperry‚ a Nobel Prize winner‚ initiated the study of the relationship between the brain’s right and left hemispheres. Sperry found that the left half of the brain tends to function by processing information in an analytical‚ rational‚ logical‚ sequential way. The right half of the brain tends to function by recognizing relationships‚ integrating and synthesizing information‚ and arriving at intuitive insights. In other words‚ the left side of your brain deals with a problem or situation
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Critical thinking is a way‚ style‚ path‚ or movement of thought in which an individual uses to find deeper meanings to everyday events or situations. Critical thinking straddles and revolves around philosophy and when asked to define critical thinking is‚ then philosophy plays a role. To attempt to define critical thinking‚ the phrase must be divided into separate words. The word "critical" can pose two analytical meanings. One meaning of "critical" exposes urgency and a sense of aporia
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“Critical Thinking: What It Is and Why It Counts” (Peter A. Facione) - summary – The article starts with emphasizing the importance of making good decisions and practicing fair judgments comparing with enduring the consequences of uninformed and bad choices. Next topic is defining “critical thinking”‚ which is based on rhetorical questions that can help each of us deducing by ourselves what it means and why it is important. Whenever you are in the position to choose‚ you have to analyze
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Sociology Article: “Sense and Nonsense About Surveys” by Howard Schuman It is rare to watch television news or read the paper without learning the results of a recent survey. Given the proliferation of surveys‚ it is important to know more about their characteristics‚ strengths‚ and weaknesses. Surveys involve two distinct steps: selecting cases (most typically people) and then presenting those cases with a predetermined set of questions. The first step‚ often called "sampling‚" is critical. In most situations
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In James Scott’s novel Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance we are shown the social and political dynamics in the village of Sadaka. The poor get poorer and the rich get richer and there is not much that can be done about it. They both need one another though. One cannot thrive without the other and one must be careful not to tip the scales in their society. The poor in the village must be careful when showing their dissatisfaction. They cannot risk a full blown revolt so they
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Linguistics‚ 2009‚ Vol. 9‚ No. 1 The Critical Period Hypothesis: Support‚ Challenge‚ and Reconceptualization The Critical Period Hypothesis: Support‚ Challenge‚ and Reconceptualization Andy Schouten1 Kanda University of International Studies ABSTRACT Given the general failure experienced by adults when attempting to learn a second or foreign language‚ many have hypothesized that a critical period exists for the domain of language learning. Supporters of the Critical Period Hypothesis (CPH) contend
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In “The Strength of Weak Ties”‚ Mark Granovetter studied one-hundred professional‚ technical‚ and managerial workers living in a Boston suburb who had recently changed jobs. Out of these one-hundred people‚ fifty-four of these workers found their new jobs through a personal contact. The strength of workers’ ties to their named contacts was measured by how often these individuals socialized and came in contact with one another. According to Granovetter‚ a strong tie relationship is a relationship
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different claims‚ the idea of weak artificial intelligence‚ and the idea of strong artificial intelligence. Weak artificial intelligence is essentially a grouping of computer programs‚ which need human input whereas strong artificial intelligence has the ability to think and have the same cognitive brain activity as humans do. Searle accepts the idea of weak artificial intelligence but on the other hand he rejects strong artificial intelligence
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