Exam 1 Study Guide : Week 1

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

Week 1: Introduction to Critical Thinking

• 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