Module Objectives
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- Define the term critical thinking
- Discuss how critical thinking relates to logic, the truth or falsity of statements, knowledge and personal empowerment
- Describe ways to detect errors in thinking and the attitudes and feelings that distort reasoning.
- Describe impediments to critical thinking: how we think and what we think.
Overview
Required Reading
Chapter 2: Obstacles to Critical Thinking
Technology Tool(s)
Twitter
Google Drive
Keywords
- appeal to common practice
- appeal to popularity
- peer pressure
- philosophical skepticism
- social relativism
- stereotyping
- subjective relativism
- subjectivist fallacy
- worldview
Citations
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Barriers to Critical Thinking (Ridel Text). (n.d.). Retrieved August 28, 2015, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqOKm2P7FWw