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Explain what engaging in critical thinking involves and how it differs from more basic or conventional levels of thinking.

when critically thinking, you are basing judgments on evidence, and are intellectually independent, putting thought into your thoughts.

Describe each of the levels of Bloom's Taxonomy of Cognitive Abilities and identify which of them are considered to be at the critical thinking level. (cnt)

Analysis-Separates material or concepts into component parts so that its organizational structure may be understood. Distinguishes between facts and inferences. Synthesis-Student originates, integrates, and combines ideas into a product, plan or proposal that is new to him. Evaluation-Make judgments about the value of ideas or materials.

Give specific examples of how one might apply analytical thinking in a general academic task such as reading, writing, or preparing for tests.

Analyzing on what you have read can be making connections with the topic, understanding its value and purpose, and validating that the source is reliable.

Outline some of the key steps or tasks in analyzing, clarifying, and evaluating information.

Analyzing- break down a concept, make relationships between ideas, outline their organization. Clarity-comprehending the ideas through examples or illustrations. Evaluating- making judgements about the value of ideas, materials and/or methods using appropriate criteria

Describe three strategies for improving your creative thinking skills (from the class presentation, video, handouts, or text) and tell how doing so can contribute to one's success.

Ask For Advice or Feedback. Find inspiration from anywhere and everywhere. Do something new. Doing these things can help contribute to one's success because it will give

Define and give at least three guidelines for the process of "brainstorming".

Brainstorming- letting your mind freely associate to come up with different ideas or answers to a question. Avoid looking for one right answer, have time alone to brainstorm, keeping recording tools at ready.

Give a definition for creativity and distinguish it from critical thinking approaches.

Combining existing elements in an innovative way to create a new purpose or result

Discuss how critical, creative, and practical thinking are integrated into the steps of problem solving or decision making.

Defining the problem (critical). Evaluating the problem (critical). Trying to find a solution (creative). Putting the solution to work (practical).

Explain how learning to generate in-depth questions contributes to both critical and creative thinking.

If you can generate in depth questions you are able to think more deeply therefore your answers become more thorough.

Describe each of the levels of Bloom's Taxonomy of Cognitive Abilities and identify which of them are considered to be at the critical thinking level.

Knowledge/Remember- Recall or retrieve previous learned information. Comprehension/Understandment-Comprehending the meaning, translation, interpolation, and interpretation of instructions and problems. State a problem in one's own words. Application-Use a concept in a new situation or unprompted use of an abstraction. Applies what was learned.

Define practical thinking and describe how "emotional intelligence" can contribute to learning from your experience.

Practical thinking- ability to adapt to reach a goal and involves both, emotional and intelligence thinking. Using emotional intelligence can help make a different decision in order to see a different result and identify and manage your own emotions and the emotions of others.

Discuss the relationship between Bloom's Taxonomy and the Successful Intelligence model.

They both help give an understanding of steps to think more critically in one's personal and academic life

Describe the basic steps involved in making a decision or solving a problem.

Use problem questions to define a problem, analyze the problem, generate possible solutions, put the solution to work, evaluate how well the solution worked, and in the future, apply what you've learned.

Identify at least three key questions that can help in activating and applying practical thinking and give an example from your own life where you learned from an experience.

What have i learned that would work here? What do i know i would do again? What has worked similar in the past? When I failed my test I learned that I should study and spend more time preparing for it.

Identify and describe at least three of the Important Intellectual Standards we discussed in class and tell how they might apply in an academic task such as writing a paper or answering an essay question on an exam.

clarity-giving examples, elaborating, draw an illustration logic- making sure it makes sense, is it reasonable relevance- can you relate to the problem? how does this help us with the issue?

Define critical thinking and explain some of its key benefits.

reasoned reflective thinking, benefits are knowledge integration and improved information quality

Explain the three parts of Sternberg's Successful Intelligence model and how they interact to help one achieve significant goals.

it is an integration of analytical, creative, practical intelligence. It is when one analyzes an object, issue or situation. is when one creates something new, useful or valuable. is when one applies skills or knowledge and solves a problem or completes a task.