Critical thinking skills for dummies
Critical thinking skills for dummies
- Wiley, 2015
- xiv + 356 p. ; 21 cm
Cover; Title Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; About This Book; Foolish Assumptions; Icons Used in This Book; Beyond the Book; Where to Go from Here; Part I: Getting Started with Critical Thinking Skills; Chapter 1: Entering the Exciting World of Critical Thinking; Opening the Doors to the Arguments Clinic; Developing Critical Thinking Skills: Reading between the Lines; Understanding What Critical Thinking Isn't; Chapter 2: Peering into the Mind: How People Think; Thinking Logically or Instinctively: Evolution and Consciousness; Watching How the Brain Thinks. Getting Inside Scientists' HeadsAnswers to Chapter 2's Exercises; Chapter 3: Planting Ideas in Your Head: The Sociology of Thinking; Asking Whether You're Thinking What You Think You're Thinking; Thinking and Indoctrination: Propaganda; Appreciating the Difficulties of Staying Impartial; Appealing to Feelings: The Psychology of Argument; Manipulating Minds and Persuading People; Answers to Chapter 3's Exercise; Chapter 4: Assessing Your Thinking Skills; Discovering Your Personal Thinking Habits; Busting Myths about Thinking; Exploring Different Types of Intelligence: Emotions and Creativity. Answers to Chapter 4's ExercisesPart II: Developing Your Critical Thinking Skills; Chapter 5: Critical Thinking Is Like ... Solving Puzzles: Reasoning by Analogy; Investigating Inventiveness and Imagination; Confused Comparisons and Muddled Metaphors; Becoming a Thought Experimenter; Answers To Chapter 5's Exercise; Chapter 6: Thinking in Circles: The Power of Recursion; Thinking Like a Computer Programmer; Combining the Thinking Spheres; Sort, Select, Amplify, Generate: Using Design Skills to See New Solutions; Ordering Yourself a Nice, Fresh Argument! (Exercise). Answers To Chapter 6's ExercisesChapter 7: Drawing on Graphical (and Other) Tools for Thinking; Discovering Graphical Tools: Mind Mapping and Making Concept Charts; Putting Graphical Tools To Use; Considering Other Thinking Tools; Answers to Chapter 7's Exercises; Chapter 8: Constructing Knowledge: Information Hierarchies; Building the Knowledge Pyramid with Data and Information Blocks; Turning the Knowledge Hierarchy Upside Down; Maintaining Motivation: Knowledge, Skills and Mindsets; Answers to Chapter 8's Exercises; Part III: Applying Critical Thinking in Practice. Chapter 9: Getting to the Heart of the (Reading) MatterAppreciating Critical Reading as a Practical Skill; Reading between the Lines; Playing Detective: Examining the Evidence; Filtering out Irrelevant Material; Answers to Chapter 10's Exercises; Chapter 10: Cultivating Your Critical Writing Skills; Choosing the Appropriate Style of Writing; Getting Down to the Specifics of Critical Writing; Answers to Chapter 10's Exercise; Structuring Your Thoughts on the Page; Chapter 11: Speaking and Listening Critically: Effective Learning; Getting the Most from Formal Talks.
Cohen takes the intimidation out of critical thinking, and provides hands-on exercises to help you apply the skills you need in your academic work to achieve higher grades.
9781118924723
LB - Theory and practice of education
Critical thinking -- Study and teaching
PSYCHOLOGY Cognitive Psychology
SCIENCE Science
Cover; Title Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; About This Book; Foolish Assumptions; Icons Used in This Book; Beyond the Book; Where to Go from Here; Part I: Getting Started with Critical Thinking Skills; Chapter 1: Entering the Exciting World of Critical Thinking; Opening the Doors to the Arguments Clinic; Developing Critical Thinking Skills: Reading between the Lines; Understanding What Critical Thinking Isn't; Chapter 2: Peering into the Mind: How People Think; Thinking Logically or Instinctively: Evolution and Consciousness; Watching How the Brain Thinks. Getting Inside Scientists' HeadsAnswers to Chapter 2's Exercises; Chapter 3: Planting Ideas in Your Head: The Sociology of Thinking; Asking Whether You're Thinking What You Think You're Thinking; Thinking and Indoctrination: Propaganda; Appreciating the Difficulties of Staying Impartial; Appealing to Feelings: The Psychology of Argument; Manipulating Minds and Persuading People; Answers to Chapter 3's Exercise; Chapter 4: Assessing Your Thinking Skills; Discovering Your Personal Thinking Habits; Busting Myths about Thinking; Exploring Different Types of Intelligence: Emotions and Creativity. Answers to Chapter 4's ExercisesPart II: Developing Your Critical Thinking Skills; Chapter 5: Critical Thinking Is Like ... Solving Puzzles: Reasoning by Analogy; Investigating Inventiveness and Imagination; Confused Comparisons and Muddled Metaphors; Becoming a Thought Experimenter; Answers To Chapter 5's Exercise; Chapter 6: Thinking in Circles: The Power of Recursion; Thinking Like a Computer Programmer; Combining the Thinking Spheres; Sort, Select, Amplify, Generate: Using Design Skills to See New Solutions; Ordering Yourself a Nice, Fresh Argument! (Exercise). Answers To Chapter 6's ExercisesChapter 7: Drawing on Graphical (and Other) Tools for Thinking; Discovering Graphical Tools: Mind Mapping and Making Concept Charts; Putting Graphical Tools To Use; Considering Other Thinking Tools; Answers to Chapter 7's Exercises; Chapter 8: Constructing Knowledge: Information Hierarchies; Building the Knowledge Pyramid with Data and Information Blocks; Turning the Knowledge Hierarchy Upside Down; Maintaining Motivation: Knowledge, Skills and Mindsets; Answers to Chapter 8's Exercises; Part III: Applying Critical Thinking in Practice. Chapter 9: Getting to the Heart of the (Reading) MatterAppreciating Critical Reading as a Practical Skill; Reading between the Lines; Playing Detective: Examining the Evidence; Filtering out Irrelevant Material; Answers to Chapter 10's Exercises; Chapter 10: Cultivating Your Critical Writing Skills; Choosing the Appropriate Style of Writing; Getting Down to the Specifics of Critical Writing; Answers to Chapter 10's Exercise; Structuring Your Thoughts on the Page; Chapter 11: Speaking and Listening Critically: Effective Learning; Getting the Most from Formal Talks.
Cohen takes the intimidation out of critical thinking, and provides hands-on exercises to help you apply the skills you need in your academic work to achieve higher grades.
9781118924723
LB - Theory and practice of education
Critical thinking -- Study and teaching
PSYCHOLOGY Cognitive Psychology
SCIENCE Science
