Analytical Thinking Skills
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Analytical Thinking Skills is a course designed to develop students' ability to systematically and objectively evaluate information, break down complex problems, and draw evidence-based conclusions. Through exposure to various analytical frameworks and real-world scenarios, students learn to identify logical connections, recognize patterns, and assess the validity of arguments. The course emphasizes critical questioning, effective data interpretation, and problem-solving strategies, empowering students to make well-reasoned decisions and present their findings in clear, structured formats applicable across academic and professional contexts.
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THiNK 3rd Edition by Judith A. Boss
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Chapter 1: Critical Thinking: Why Its Important?
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Q1) William Perry,and then later researchers,studied the cognitive development of college students.When the results are simplified into a developmental continuum of three stages,the first stage is called
A) relativism.
B) commitment.
C) dualism.
D) None of these answers is correct.
Answer: C
Q2) When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans,hundreds of people died who might otherwise have been saved,due to what critical thinking error?
A) lack of preparedness
B) fortifying the wrong structures in preparation for the storm
C) denial
D) political rationalization
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Reason and Emotion
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Q1) Which of the following is true,according to evolutionary theory?
A) Only human beings are capable of thought.
B) Human beings are part of a divinely instituted order among beings. Humans are above animals, but below angels and God.
C) Reason is an adaptation of humans and other animals that promotes survival.
D) All animals are capable of using reason.
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following is supposed to be demonstrated by the Taoist analogy between the relationship between ice and water and the relationship between reason and emotion?
A) Just as ice and water are distinct things, reason and emotion are completely distinct.
B) Just as ice and water are not quite identical and not quite distinct, reason and emotion are two aspects of the same thing and yet they differ in some ways.
C) Just as ice and water are really the same thing, reason and emotion are two aspects of one thing and so they do not differ at all from each other.
D) All of these answers are correct.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Language and Communication
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Q1) Which of the following is true of the functions that language can serve?
A) Language can only be used to impart information.
B) Language can only serve one function at a time.
C) Language can be used as a part of a formal ceremony.
D) Language cannot be used to express and impart emotions.
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following first became a lexical definition in the 2010s?
A) global warming
B) AIDS
C) cybercast
D) democracy
Answer: C
Q3) Which of the following is true of theoretical definitions?
A) Theoretical definitions attempt to capture how a word is normally used.
B) Theoretical definitions are a type of precising definition.
C) Theoretical definitions have only connotative meanings.
D) None of these answers is correct.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Knowledge, Evidence, and Errors in Thinking
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Q1) Most people blame themselves when they fail.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Internet is never a reliable source of evidence.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is true of evidence and experience?
A) An experience can be used as evidence if other evidence does not contradict it.
B) Experience is always credible evidence for a claim regardless of what other evidence is available.
C) Experience can never be evidence for a claim.
D) None of these answers is correct.
Q4) If a claim conflicts with our experience,then we have a good reason to be suspicious of that experience since we can never directly experience the world.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Informal Fallacies
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Q1) Which of the following commits the fallacy of popular appeal?
A) an argument that we should believe that evolutionary theory is correct on the grounds that almost all biologists believe it
B) an argument that you should vote for Smith because everyone else is going to vote for him
C) an argument that we should believe that the Earth is flat on the grounds that the Earth certainly does not look round when you are standing on it
D) All of these answers describe arguments that commit the fallacy of popular appeal.
Q2) Which of the following best describes the red herring fallacy?
A) slapping someone with a large fish
B) bringing up information that is completely irrelevant to the point at hand
C) seeking only information that confirms the opinion you hold
D) ignoring information that would disconfirm your opinion
Q3) A loaded question is a fallacy involving an unwarranted assumption.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Recognizing, Analyzing, and Constructing Arguments
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Q1) Arguments cannot provide reasons for accepting a position.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following best describes a valid deductive argument?
A) an argument with two premises
B) a persuasive argument
C) an argument that provides just some reason for believing its conclusion
D) an argument that guarantees the truth of its conclusion if its premises are all true
Q3) "John,don't jump!" can be a prescriptive premise.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Propositions cannot be conclusions of arguments.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Which of the following is true?
A) What is explained is known to have occurred.
B) Explanations can be given in terms of the purposes of an item.
C) Explanations attempt to provide an account of why something happened.
D) All of these answers are correct.
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Chapter 7: Inductive Arguments
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Q1) The only purpose anyone has in conducting a poll is to collect information.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following best describes a generalization?
A) an argument that guarantees the truth of its conclusion.
B) an argument that claims that something is the cause of something else.
C) an argument that claims a group is likely to have some characteristic on the grounds that a subset of that group has that characteristic.
D) None of these answers is correct.
Q3) Which of the following is one criterion for evaluating causal arguments as successful?
A) The conclusion goes beyond the premises.
B) A correlation exists.
C) The data is not up-to-date.
D) None of these answers is correct.
Q4) How a question is worded can affect the outcome of a poll.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Deductive Arguments
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Q1) Valid deductive arguments guarantee the truth of their conclusions.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is a valid deductive form of argument?
A)modus tollens
B)affirming the consequent
C)ad hominem
D)These are all deductively valid forms of argument.
Q3) Which is true of the following argument: "All dogs are rabid.Some rabid things are mammals.Therefore,some dogs are mammals."
A) The argument is sound.
B) The argument is valid.
C) The argument is both unsound and invalid.
D) None of these answers is correct.
Q4) Suppose the conclusion of a valid deductive argument was false.What can you conclude about the argument?
A) The argument is not deductively valid at all!
B) All of the premises are true.
C) All of the premises are false.
D) At least one of the premises is false.
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Chapter 9: Ethics and Moral Decision Making
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Q1) Which of the following is Kant's second formulation of the categorical imperative?
A) Treat humanity always as a category of educated beings.
B) Never treat humanity as a means.
C) Never treat humanity as an end in itself.
D) Treat humanity always as an end in itself, never as a mere means.
Q2) Gratitude is one of W.D.Ross's seven prima facie duties.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is a right to be allowed to pursue our legitimate interests?
A) welfare rights
B) liberty rights
C) legitimate rights
D) legal rights
Q4) Cultural relativists and ethical subjectivists both believe that morality can change over time.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Marketing and Advertising
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Q1) Which of the following is true of marketing research?
A) It only provides information about what products will probably succeed or fail.
B) Focus groups are a type of marketing research that can provide an important source of information about a target market's preferences.
C) Experimentation is an important type of marketing research.
D) All of these answers are correct.
Q2) The law does not allow ads to present false or misleading information.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is true of advertising?
A) Teenagers are more critical of advertisements than are older adults.
B) The average child sees approximately 40,000 television commercials a year.
C) Children under the age of eight can usually recognize the purpose of an advertisement.
D) Children easily resist advertisements that play on their need for peer acceptance.
Q4) A business's weaknesses always adversely affect the business.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Mass Media
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Q1) Five percent of Internet search engine requests are for pornography.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is true of the typical half-hour local newscast?
A) It spends the majority of its broadcast time on U.S. foreign policy.
B) It spends more time on U.S. foreign policy than on sports and weather combined.
C) It spends only half as much time on U.S. foreign policy as on sports and weather.
D) It spends about one-thirteenth as much time on U.S. foreign policy as on sports and weather.
Q3) Which of the following is a goal of the news media?
A) to inform the public about issues of importance
B) to appeal to a large audience
C) to present the news in an entertaining manner
D) All of these answers are correct.
Q4) Press releases from the subjects of reports are almost always reliable.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Science
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Q1) Measurements in an experiment are considered reliable when they meet which of the following conditions?
A) The measurements are inconsistent with each other over a long period of time.
B) The measurements are consistent no matter who does the measuring.
C) The measurements are precise to the nearest nanogram.
D) None of these answers is correct.
Q2) Some experimental designs are unethical.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following helped launch the scientific revolution by claiming that the Sun,rather than the Earth,is the center of the universe?
A) Francis Bacon
B) Thomas Kuhn
C) Nicolaus Copernicus
D) Albert Einstein
Q4) The confidence level in an experimental result decreases as the margin of error decreases.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Law and Politics
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Q1) Which of the following is a check on the power of the American government built into its Constitution?
A) The government is completely centralized.
B) The federal government is divided into three distinct branches with various powers over each other.
C) The president has the power to make laws directly.
D) All of these answers are correct.
Q2) Some laws have nothing to do with morality or justice.
A)True
B)False
Q3) International laws are not created by the legislatures of individual countries.
A)True
B)False
Q4) All laws are just.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Applying precedents is a form of inductive reasoning.
A)True
B)False
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