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Get Critical Thinking: Reasoned Decision Making Week 04 Quiz Answers
Quiz 1: Self-evaluation
Q1. Which description best defines WORLDVIEW?
- A. Our perspective of things and how we accept them.
- B. The entirety of what we comprehend and believe about the world, about ourselves, and how we interact with it.
- C. The way in which we interpret the world.
Q2. When making decisions, which sets of elements do we need to articulate in the process?
- A. Affirmations, beliefs and inferences.
- B. Elements, standards and values, and virtues.
- C. Our worldview, ways of thinking, the questions and choices available to us.
Q3. Which of the following statements best describes how we are shaped by our choices?
- A. “Each of us is the son of his own works.”
- B. Interaction with the environment shapes us.
- C. The world asks and we respond.
Quiz 2: Self-evaluation
Q1. The concept of Experience involves:
- A. A connection of doing something that will result in a consequence.
- B. Accumulated knowledge.
- C. Experience is what we have learned.
Q2. According to the explanation of experience, do you agree that relationships can be perceptible without experience?
- A. Yes, you can learn without doing. Once you have understood the theory behind it, the knowledge is ready to be transferred.
- B. No, only if you do things and live with the consequences, will learning become an experience.
- C. Yes, we can learn by example.
Q3. How can we evaluate our knowledge?
- A. By understanding the theory behind the concepts or issues.
- B. By the way in which it helps us solve future situations, and by the solidity, security and fertility for facing new situations.
- C. By the immediate application of a theory.
Quiz 3: Evaluation of Topic 4
Q1. The benefits of the language of the imagination used in literary works come from:
- A. The search for clues about a topic.
- B. The capacity to create alternate modes of existence and new possibilities of human experience.
- C. Open-mindedness.
- D. Avoiding and forgetting about reality.
Q2. According to John Dewey what is the vital meaning of an experience?
- A. Having a repertory of solutions.
- B. The accumulation of concepts and thoughts.
- C. Making connections explicit in the form of relationships, so as to understand the details of the connection between things for future applications.
- D. Using our past to resolve the future.
Q3. Which elements best describe the term worldview:
- A. Beliefs, about the world and ourselves, and how they interact with each other.
- B. Point of view and choices.
- C. The world, interpretations, choices.
- D. Ideas, images, needs, emotions, beliefs.
Q4. What is the greatest risk of being such an autonomous thinker?
- A. Being independent when thinking.
- B. Being ego-centric.
- C. Having self-assurance and self-confidence.
- D. There are no risks.
Q5. Some thinkers attack classroom thinkers by saying that practical experience:
- A. Is better than classroom learning.
- B. Canonly be acquired outside classroom.
- C. Is not something abstract or speculative that can be learned in classrooms.
- D. Prepares you for life, which encyclopedic knowledge does not prepare you for life.
Quiz 4: Final exam
Q1. What phrase best represents the concept of Metacognition?
- A. Top-down thinking.
- B. A superior way of thinking.
- C. Thinking about how we think.
- D. Thinking things twice.
Q2. Think critically. What is wrong with this argument? “I don´t think you have any right to say that, since you are not even from this country”
- A. He is attacking your arguments.
- B. He is making an affirmation.
- C. He is being sociocentric.
- D. He is attacking you personally.
Q3. Think critically: My elementary school teacher once told me, “If you do not pass the course lessons, you will end up looking after sheep in a field.” Critically, he was:
- A. Joking.
- B. Intimidating me.
- C. Making a sound inference.
- D. Making a meaningless correlation.
Q4. You want to know if penguins can fly and use your logic with the following explanation: All birds can fly ( premise 1) A penguin is a bird (premise 2) Therefore, penguins can fly. (conclusion) Is your conclusion right?
- A. Yes, it follows the logic.
- B. No. I checked on the internet.
- C. No, the conclusion is not logical.
- D. No, because premise 1 is wrong from the beginning.
Q5. When we say we use the different ways of thinking in an interwoven way, we mean that:
- A. We use them sequentially.
- B. We use them unconsciously.
- C. We choose one of them.
- D. We prioritize the relevant modes purposefully, according to their contribution.
Q6. A good way to resist group pressure is:
- A. To comply with the expected group values.
- B. Reject the group’s affirmations.
- C. Accept only affirmations endorsed by group leaders.
- D. Follow your beliefs according to the strength of reasons exposed.
Q7. Ambiguous language is an obstacle because it will make the audience.
- A. Indifferent.
- B. Confused and not understanding the messages.
- C. Make their own interpretation.
- D. None of the above.
Q8. Which statement best describes the need for other people’s points of view?
- A. We will be accepted by others for having asked.
- B. We will be recognized as ç open-minded thinkers.
- C. That’s what leaders do.
- D. We will test and challenge our affirmations and beliefs in order to refresh them.
Q9. What is wrong with the ad hominem fallacy?
- A. Its aim is to attack the problem and reasons.
- B. It is used regularly.
- C. It attacks the opponent´s personality or character, not his or her reasons or arguments.
- D. It reflects a lack of creativity in arguments.
Q10. Being an autonomous thinker means:
- A. Not asking the others for opinions.
- B. Trusting one’s thoughts.
- C. Deciding what information to use or not to use.
- D. Accepting full responsibility for one’s choices and decisions.
Q11. You conducted a successful job search, and now have three offers from which to choose. What can you do to most thoroughly investigate your potential employers? (Choose the one that does NOT apply)
- A. Check out their websites.
- B. Research their financial situations.
- C. Speak with people who work at these companies.
- D. Watch the news to see if the companies are mentioned.
Q12. When facing a complex situation, which intellectual standard is most important?
- A. Accuracy.
- B. Honesty.
- C. Breadth.
- D. Depth.
Q13. Think critically. When buying a car, what information is NOT relevant?
- A. Fuel efficiency in kilometers/liter.
- B. Type of tires.
- C. Monthly payments.
- D. Guarantees in terms of years or kilometers.
Q14. In a group session, how can we create an appropriate atmosphere for collaboration or participation in a discussion?
- A. Asking for alternate opinions and letting the others have their say.
- B. Asking each person in order.
- C. Leaving time at the end for questions and answers.
- D. Asking for individual contributions on small cards.
Q15. Approach this question critically. What is the most important thing when deciding on a sample for a quantitative survey?
- A. The size of the sample must be according to the population.
- B. The dispersion of the sample needs to reflect the dispersion of the population.
- C. The desired level of confidence.
- D. The geographic coverage of the sample.
Q16. What does it mean to be an autonomous person?
- A. Thinking for ourselves and not asking others.
- B. An autonomous person is someone who is responsible for his or her own choices.
- C. Someone who decides to be independent.
- D. It is simply freedom of choice.
Q17. According to John Dewey what is the vital meaning of an experience?
- A. Having a repertory of solutions.
- B. The accumulation of concepts and thoughts.
- C. Making connections explicit in the form of relationships, so as to understand the details of the connection between things for future applications.
- D. Using our past to resolve the future.
Q18. Why is “an ounce of experience better than a ton of theory,” according to John Dewey?
- A. There is no use in having a full mind.
- B. Because it is only in experience that any theory has vital and verifiable significance.
- C. It means that theory is not worth as much as practical application.
- D. It means that theory is derived from experimental practice.
Q19. How can critical thinking help to build a well-ordered mind?
- A. It gives us a method to follow.
- B. We rely on its sequential phases.
- C. It acts as a catalyst to filter and adapt the ways of thought, knowledge and connections in a fruitful manner.
- D. It helps us communicate our arguments.
Q20. For the purpose of our course on of critical thinking, we should consider the terms: Thinking, knowledge, understanding and experience as:
- A. Totally different concepts.
- B. Similar concepts.
- C. Sequential concepts that following that order.
- D. Different cognitive processes.
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