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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
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