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1.3 Tutorial: Chapter 1 Concept Review

by Gary Jason | Mar 26, 2018

This tutorial is a practice quiz so you can review your understanding of the Chapter 1 material. Select the correct answer. If you do get a question wrong, you can see why.

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1. Question
What is a ‘worldview’ (or ‘Mental Model’)?
- A model of the human mind.
- A way of looking at things.
- A set of beliefs about the world or part of it.
- A model of the world outside the mind.
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2. Question
What is ‘critical thinking’ as a reasoning process?
- Developing an ever more accurate worldview and using it in your decision-making.
- A hybrid subject composed of elements of many fields — logic, philosophy, legal studies, cognitive psychology, statistics, and communication studies — that studies the reasoning process of critical thinking.
- Developing an ever more accurate worldview.
- A hybrid subject composed of elements of many fields.
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3. Question
What is ‘critical thinking’ as an academic discipline?
- Developing an ever more accurate worldview and using it in your decision-making.
- A hybrid subject composed of elements of many fields — logic, philosophy, legal studies, cognitive psychology, statistics, and communication studies — that studies the reasoning process of critical thinking.
- Developing an ever more accurate worldview.
- A hybrid subject composed of elements of many fields.
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4. Question
Identify the criteria for an effective world view.
- Clarity, relevance, justification, organization, and explanatory/predictive power.
- Organization, relevance, justification, consistency and explanatory/predictive power.
- Clarity, relevance, justification, consistency, and organization.
- Clarity, justification, explanatory/predictive power, relevance, and consistency.
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5. Question
What is a ‘fallacy’?
- A widely believed falsehood.
- A common type of reasoning.
- A mistake in reasoning.
- An intentional trick in reasoning.
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6. Question
What does it mean to say that a group of statements is ‘consistent’?
- That they can all be true at the same time.
- That they are all true.
- That they cannot all be true at the same time.
- That all the statements are false
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7. Question
What is ‘relevance’ as a requirement on information collected?
- The information collected should be important.
- The information collected should be true.
- The information collected should be consistent.
- The information collected should be related to the topic at hand.
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