Exam 1 Study Guide : Week 1

Add on to these in your own document as you please, as these are just general notes.

Characteristics of critical thinkers (skills, attitude, attributes)
- Willing to plan/think before acting/deciding (Habit of Planning)
- Persistent attempts at solving problems (even when they appear difficult or unsolvable)
- Seek consensus & maintain awareness of social realities so thoughts can become actions.
Transfer of training
- Critical thinking instruction is only as valuable as it is ^^transferable^^ to other contexts.
- Focusing on ^^structural^^ aspects of problem helps make critical thinking skills less ^^domain-specific^^
Metacognitive monitoring
- ==Metacognition==: Our knowledge about our memory and thought processes and using this knowledge to direct further learning activities
System 1 and 2 thinking
- @@System 1@@: Fast (Intuition)
- @@System 2@@: Slow (effortful, deliberate)
Bounded rationality
- People are not completely rational; there are limits or boundaries to our ability to think rationally (Simon, 1978)
- %%Satisficer%%:
- %%Fast and Frugal Thinking%%:
- Emotions can influence how and what we think (often w/o awareness). Research example: %%The Ultimatum Game%%
- Unconscious factors affect how we think, feel, & behave.
Videos
- What Is Critical Thinking?
- The Dunning-Kruger Effect
- System 1 and System 2 Thinking
- Bounded Rationality