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