Wocs Critical And Creative Thinking

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What is Critical Thinking

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"a deliberate process of thought whose purpose is to discern truth in situations where direct observation is insufficient, impossible, or impractical."

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What is the purpose of Critical Thinking?

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to get you to visualize a problem, its solutions, and the ramifications of those solutions.

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What is a direct result of mission planning involving critical thinking?

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Decision Making

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What is one purpose of Creative Thinking?

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to better your problem solving and leadership abilities

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What methods are used to better improve situations?

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Simple Evolution, Synthesis, Revolution, Reapplication, and changing directions

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What ae the 9 approaches that bring Disipline to Thinking?

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Clarity, Accuracy, Precision, Relevance, Depth, Breadth, Logic, Significance, and Fairness

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What are the 8 Intellectual Traits?

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Fair-Mindedness, Intellectual Humility, Intellectual Courage, Intellectual Empathy, Intellectual Integrity, Intellectual Perseverance, Confidence in Reason, and Intellectual Autonomy

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What are traits exhibited by Habitual Critical and Creative Thinkers?

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Curiosity, Just because they want to know, Define a Problem, Evaluatiing Evidence, and logical reasoning

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What is the process of forming conclusions, judgements, facts, opinions, or inferences?

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Reasoning

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What is reasoning where a conclusion is a logical consequence of the premise?

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Deductive Reasoning or Deductive Logic

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What is the process of reasoning in which a person uses a number of specific established facts to draw a general conclusion?

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Inductive Reasoning or Inductive Logic

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What is Observation

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Collect Facts without Bias

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What is Analysis?

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Classify facts by establishing patterns of regularity

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What is Inference?

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from the patterns, infer generalizations about the relationship between facts

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What is confirmation?

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test the inference through futher observation

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Inductive Reasoning is useful when there is _______ about a problem?

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limited information

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What are twop additional tools to enhance critical and creative thinking?

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Making a list and Brainstorming

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What are the Pitfalls in Thinking?

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Internal and External Bias

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What are internal biases?

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Biases that are independent of your enviroment

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What are some External Biases?

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Cultural Deformation, Presentation Bias, Tunnel Vision, and Wishful Thinking Bias

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What are two tools to avoid Pitfalls in Thinking

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Diagnostic Technique and Contrarian Technique

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What is Diagnostic Technique?

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procedure followed to avoid the pitfall

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What is Contrarian Technique?

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is when you directly challenge an assumption or outcome

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What ae three things you check for when using diagnostic technique?

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Check your assumptions, check your information quality, and check for deception

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Which technique would you use to play "devil's advocate"

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Contrarian Technique

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When using the Contrarian Technique it is as if you are searching for what?

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the worst possible information or outcome

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What are other techinque's that can be used under the Contrarian Technique?

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Devil's Advocate, What if, and Pre-Mortem Technique

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What are the Universal Intellectual Standards

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Clarity, accuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth, logic, and fairness

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What FM covers Critical and Creative Thinking?

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FM 5-0

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While your ability to think critically gets faster the more you practice it, you first?

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have to think how to think