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TPCT C2 Obstacles to Critical Thinking

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PART I
BASICS OF CRITICAL THINKING

Thinking Skills

Understand the logical connections between ideas.

• Formulate ideas succinctly and precisely.

• Identify, construct, and evaluate arguments.

• Evaluate the pros and cons of a decision.

• Evaluate the evidence for and against a hypothesis.

• Detect inconsistencies and common mistakes in reasoning.

• Analyze problems systematically.

• Identify the relevance and importance of ideas.

• Justify one's beliefs and values.

• Reflect and evaluate one's thinking skills.

Lau, J.Y.F. An introduction to critical thinking and creativity. (2011) Wiley

CHAPTER 1: OBSERVATION SKILLS

GLOSSARY

Chapter 1
Glossary	Keywords	Definition
Accommodation	Schema adjustment/creation	Accommodation is achieved when we can do the thinking needed to create a new schema or modify an old schema in order to explain a new experience.
Assimilation	Schema integration	Assimilation is achieved when we can integrate new experiences into existing schemas.
Disequilibrium	Confusion	The confusion and discomfort felt when a new experience cannot be integrated into existing schemas.
Equilibrium	Well being/ Adjusted	A stable inner feeling of well being that we feel when our thinking enables us to modify or create a new schema that better explains our world.
Hypothesis	Trial idea	Hypothesis is a trial idea, tentative explanation, or theory that can be tested and used to further an investigation.
Observe	watch	To watch with attentive awareness.
Perceiving	Regard// interpret / sense-making	To regard and interpret what the senses tell us.
Principal claim and reasons	Thesis/conclusion and evidence	These are the two parts of an argument. The principal claim is the thesis or conclusion. The reasons support this claim through evidence or other claims. A claim is an assertion about something.
Schema	Mental files/ understanding	Schemas are the mental files in which we store our explanations of experiences.
Sensing	Sense-using	To make use of such senses as sight, hearing, and touch.
Thinking	Purposeful _mental activities	Purposeful mental activity such as reasoning, deciding, judging, believing, supposing, expecting, intending, recalling, remembering, visualizing, imagining, devising, inventing, concentrating, conceiving, considering.