Critical Thinking Skills for Dummies
The ability to think clearly and critically is a lifelong benefit that you can apply in any situation that calls for reflection, analysis, and planning. Being able to think systematically and solve problems is also a great career asset. Critical Thinking Skills For Dummies helps you hone your thinki...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
2024.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed |
| Colección: | --For dummies.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009828020906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- About This Book
- Foolish Assumptions
- Icons Used in This Book
- Beyond the Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part 1 Getting Started with Critical Thinking Skills
- Chapter 1 Entering the Exciting World of Critical Thinking
- Opening the Doors to the Arguments Clinic
- Defining Critical Thinking
- Spotting how the brain likes to think
- Evaluating what you read, hear, and think
- Reading between the Lines
- Challenging concepts of rationality
- Dipping into the critical thinking skills toolbox
- Ordering your thinking: Reason, analyze, and then argue
- Discovering what kind of thinking you do
- Understanding What Critical Thinking Isn't
- Chapter 2 Peering into the Mind: How People Think
- Thinking Logically or Instinctively
- Buying beans and composing sonnets
- Jumping to conclusions: The cost of fast thinking
- Encountering illogicality with the Linda Problem
- Considering the power of group thinking
- Questioning your beliefs
- Cascading information
- Watching How the Brain Thinks
- "My nerves are playing up": The brain at work
- Stereotypes versus statistics - guess who wins!
- Getting Inside Scientists' Heads
- Engaging with scientific convention
- Trusting conjecture and refutation
- Thinking in fits and starts: Paradigm shifts
- Answers to Chapter 2's Exercises
- Pricing bats and balls
- Looking for the robber
- Astronomical wrangles
- Chapter 3 Planting Ideas in Your Head: The Sociology of Thinking
- Asking Whether You're Thinking What You Think You're Thinking
- Knowing how outside forces work on people
- Influencing people's opinions
- Consumer demand
- Emulation
- Advertising
- Thinking and Indoctrination: Propaganda
- "Here's what you think, comrade": Russia and China
- Mr. Hitler appealing to the man on the street.
- Appreciating the Difficulties of Staying Impartial
- Being neutral . . . up to a point: The BBC
- Things are heating up: The climate change debate
- Struggling to find a consensus
- Appealing to Feelings: The Psychology of Argument
- Using emotions to powerful effect
- Grabbing the attention of the gullible
- Spotting prejudice dressed as science
- Manipulating Minds and Persuading People
- Understanding how persuasion in society works
- Recognizing the language of persuasion
- Recoiling in horror as millions of Americans see "Daisy" get blown up by a bomb
- Spotting the techniques being used on you!
- Chapter 4 Assessing Your Thinking Skills
- Discovering Your Personal Thinking Habits
- Identifying the essence of critical thinking
- Testing your own critical thinking skills!
- Question 1: Brain teaser
- Question 2: Word pictures
- Question 3: Spot the fallacy!
- Question 4: Good argument!
- Question 5: Type-casting
- Question 6: More type-casting
- Question 7: Business skills
- Question 8: Time management
- Question 9: Justice for TV watchers
- Question 10: Car rentals
- Bonus question: The riddle of the old- fashioned brew
- Busting Myths about Thinking
- Accepting that sloppy thinking can work
- Trumping logic with belief
- Confirming the truth of confirmation bias
- Argumentative self-control and critical thinking
- "It's only logically consistent, Captain": Practical wisdom is virtuous
- Exploring Different Types of Intelligence: Emotions and Creativity
- Thinking about what other people are thinking: Emotional intelligence
- Emotional intelligence skills
- EQ not IQ
- Finding out about fuzzy thinking and creativity
- Answers to Chapter 4's Exercises
- Feedback on the critical thinking skills test
- 1: Brain teasers
- 2: Word pictures
- 3: Spot the fallacy!
- 4: Good argument!
- 5: Type-casting.
- 6: More type-casting
- 7: Business skills
- 8: Time management
- 9: Justice for TV watchers
- 10: Car rentals
- Bonus question: The riddle of the old-fashioned brew
- Part 2 Developing Your Critical Thinking Skills
- Chapter 5 Critical Thinking Is Like . . . Solving Puzzles: Reasoning by Analogy
- Investigating Inventiveness and Using Your Imagination
- Understanding the importance of analogies to creativity
- Watching your language
- Seeing how words play tricks
- Confused Comparisons and Muddled Metaphors
- Seeing false analogies in action
- Uncovering false analogies
- Becoming a Thought Experimenter
- Discovering thought experiments
- Dropping Galileo's famous balls: Critical thinking in action
- Splitting brains in half with philosophy
- Answers to Chapter 5's Exercises
- Schrödinger's Cat
- Chapter 6 Thinking in Circles: The Power of Recursion
- Thinking Like a Computer Programmer
- Taking tips on clarity from programmers
- Thinking methodically with algorithms
- Approaching the chaos
- Producing a solution
- Distinguishing between semantics and syntax
- Thinking dialectically
- Sort, Select, Amplify, Generate: Using Design Skills to See New Solutions
- Check all the angles
- State the problem, gather relevant information, and analyze the implications
- Look close, look away, look back
- Try to avoid facts
- Ordering Yourself a Nice, Fresh Argument! (Exercise)
- Answers to Chapter 6's Exercises
- The Maze Flow Chart
- "Help me!"
- The Monster's Argument
- Chapter 7 Drawing on Graphics for Thinking
- Discovering Graphical Tools: Mind Mapping and Making Concept Charts
- Minding out for mind maps
- Counting on concept charts
- Following links and going with the flow
- Putting Graphical Tools to Use
- Choosing the right chart arrangement
- Developing simple concept charts.
- Using maps and charts in the real world
- Appreciating the different styles of concept charts and mind maps
- Adding movement to your diagrams by drawing flowcharts
- Considering Other Thinking Tools
- Emptying your head with a dump list
- Sifting for gold: Summarizing
- Conjuring up ideas with brainstorming
- Ascending the heights: Meta-thinking
- Trying out triangulation
- Real-life triangles
- Denzin's three-sided methods
- Answers to Chapter 7's Exercises
- The plant problem
- Summarizing exercise
- Chapter 8 Constructing Knowledge: Information Hierarchies
- Building the Knowledge Pyramid
- Viewing the connections between data and information
- Joining the (data) dots to create information
- Social media sifting disinformation
- Birdwatch
- Watching for errors and biases
- Turning the Knowledge Hierarchy Upside Down
- Thinking critically with Benjamin Bloom
- Meeting Bloom's Taxonomy
- Making knowledge flow upwards
- Thinking creatively with Calvin Taylor
- Maintaining Motivation: Knowledge, Skills, and Mindsets
- Feeling your way to academic success!
- Perusing the paradoxical nature of praise
- Developing the necessary mindset
- Answers to Chapter 8's Exercises
- Dewey's recipe for education
- "It's been an exceptionally wet summer"
- Research on the problems of demotivation
- Part 3 Applying Critical Thinking in Practice
- Chapter 9 Getting to the Heart of the (Reading) Matter
- Appreciating Critical Reading as a Practical Skill
- Reading between the Lines
- Checking the publisher's standing
- Cross-examining the author
- Considering why the text was written
- Appraising how a text is written and presented
- Taking into account when a text is written
- Judging the evidence
- Assessing your reasons for reading the text
- Playing Detective: Examining the Evidence.
- Weighing up primary and secondary sources
- Following chains of thought
- Read me! Testing your critical reading skills
- Spotting the hidden assumptions
- Filtering out Irrelevant Material
- Summarizing with effective note-taking
- Summary tips
- The importance of factual notes
- Using your time wisely: Skim-reading
- Answers to Chapter 10's Exercises
- Read me! Testing your critical reading skills
- Spotting hidden assumptions
- Chapter 10 Cultivating Your Critical Writing Skills
- Structuring Your Thoughts on the Page
- Identifying the basics of structure
- Presenting the evidence and setting out the argument
- Checking out the key principles of well-structured writing
- Knowing what you're writing about
- Doing initial research
- Taking lessons from others
- Reworking that first draft
- Deconstructing the question
- Producing effective conclusions
- Choosing the Appropriate Style of Writing
- Keeping your audience in mind
- Considering the detail required
- Getting Down to the Specifics of Critical Writing
- Understanding that only gardens should be flowery
- Spotting and using keywords
- Presenting the evidence and setting out the argument
- Signposting to keep readers on course
- Using intermediate conclusions
- Answers to Chapter 10's Exercise
- Chapter 11 Speaking and Listening Critically
- Getting the Most from Formal Talks
- Participating in Seminars and Small Groups
- Honing your listening skills
- Transferring skills to real-life problems
- Noting a Few Notes
- Engaging in debate: The Socratic approach
- Listening to an expert: The Academic approach
- Comparing the consequences for the note-taking process
- Democratizing the Learning Environment
- Doodling to generate creativity
- Answers to Chapter 11's Exercises
- The great intro
- Part 4 Reason and Argument.
- Chapter 12 Unlocking the Logic of Real Arguments.
