C168 - Critical Thinking and Logic
I did well on the practice assessement and only had an issue with terminology, below is pretty much all the terminology you will need, I used the course material
Last updated: May 4th, 2023
Notes
Topic 1
Critical Thinking
- What is critical thinking?
- An intellectual model for understanding issues and forming reasonable and informed views on them
- Interlinking Dimensions of Critical Thinking
- Analysing one's own thinking and breaking it into parts
- Evaluating one's own thinking and identifying its weaknesses while recognising its strengths
- Reconstructing one's own thinking to improve it
- Bad Thinking Habits
- Making Generalisations
- Stereotyping
- Jumping to Conclusions
- Dismissing Evidence
Topic 2
Elements of Critical Thinking
- Purposes
- Our purpose effects how we ask questions
- Questions
- Our questions effect how we gather information
- Information
- The information we gather affects the inferences we make
- Inferences
- What we infer affects how we conceptualize it.
- Concepts
- Our understanding of concepts affects our assumptions
- Assumptions
- Assumptions can affect the implications we draw
- Implications
- Implications affect our point of view
- Points of View
- Our point of view affects our thinking
The Standards
- Clarity
- Accuracy
- Relevance
- Depth
- Logic
- Significance
- Precision
- Breadth
- Fairness