1. If critical thinking is an aggregation of skills to be learned, then....
Everyone has the device personal means of arriving at a conclusion.
It requires some form of conscious training of the mind.
People are born naturally as critical thinkers.
The processes are involved in it can never be mistaken.
2. The ultimate importance of critical thinking is.
Enhancing leadership qualities.
Ensuring smooth conversation between persons.
Making people have sense of pride.
Promoting the quality of human's lives.
3. We could regard critical thinking as a scientific because.
It has no regards for knowledge not grounded in experience
It makes our predictions true
It requires adherence to laid down procedures.
Only scientists are required to use the requisite skills of critical thinking.
4. Making sense of information requires the skills of..
Explanation
Interpretation
Synthesis
Understanding
5. One characteristics of a good explanation is that it must....
Avoid the use of assumptions
Evoke emotions on the part of the audience
Provide detail or reasons to make something clearer.
Quote facts verbatim.
6. A complex text may contain a number of hidden assumptions. These assumptions could be
made exploit when one...
analyses the text.
Attempts to reconstruct the argument.
Passes judgement about the text
Rehearses the use of the complex arguments.
7. Evaluating a piece of information requires that we...
Continually criticize the information till is unacceptable to all.
Identify the strength or weakness of the information.
Praise a test until is unanimously accepted.
Protect information intellectually from being proven.
8. One of the following words signals evaluation in test questions
Appraise
Analyses
Infer
Organize
9. Premises can also be inferred from conclusions.
True
False
Partially true
Partially false
10. The need for synthesis will arise because.
A simple argument is unconvincing.
A complex argument demonstrates intelligence.
Different ideas make sense if put together.
It is a lazy way to leave ideas in their basic forms.
11. The required critical thinking skill needed to enhance the sharpening of one's imaginativ and
creative skills is termed as.
Conceptualization.
Evaluation
Inference
Incessant interrogative approach
12. The conscious effort of monitoring one's cognitive activities is called..
Analysis
Self -aggrandizement.
Self-improvement
Self-regulation.
13. The danger in evaluating information before interpretation and analysis is that.
no form of valid conclusion can be arrived at
one risk substituting emotion for a reason
the information will no longer be a matter of grave concern.
There is a higher probability of being emotional
14. Self- regulation can also be regarded as...
abstaining from immorality
assessing hidden motives in the minds of people
strict adherence to rules and regulation
thinking about the content of our thoughts
15. A good synthesis must achieve all of the following except to except to...
Bring creativity to bear
Develop a.
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1. 1. If critical thinking is an aggregation of skills to be learned, then....
Everyone has the device personal means of arriving at a conclusion.
It requires some form of conscious training of the mind.
People are born naturally as critical thinkers.
The processes are involved in it can never be mistaken.
2. The ultimate importance of critical thinking is.
Enhancing leadership qualities.
Ensuring smooth conversation between persons.
Making people have sense of pride.
Promoting the quality of human's lives.
3. We could regard critical thinking as a scientific because.
It has no regards for knowledge not grounded in experience
It makes our predictions true
It requires adherence to laid down procedures.
Only scientists are required to use the requisite skills of critical thinking.
4. Making sense of information requires the skills of..
Explanation
Interpretation
Synthesis
Understanding
5. One characteristics of a good explanation is that it must....
Avoid the use of assumptions
Evoke emotions on the part of the audience
Provide detail or reasons to make something clearer.
Quote facts verbatim.
6. A complex text may contain a number of hidden assumptions. These assumptions could be
made exploit when one...
analyses the text.
Attempts to reconstruct the argument.
Passes judgement about the text
Rehearses the use of the complex arguments.
7. Evaluating a piece of information requires that we...
Continually criticize the information till is unacceptable to all.
Identify the strength or weakness of the information.
Praise a test until is unanimously accepted.
Protect information intellectually from being proven.
8. One of the following words signals evaluation in test questions
Appraise
Analyses
Infer
Organize
2. 9. Premises can also be inferred from conclusions.
True
False
Partially true
Partially false
10. The need for synthesis will arise because.
A simple argument is unconvincing.
A complex argument demonstrates intelligence.
Different ideas make sense if put together.
It is a lazy way to leave ideas in their basic forms.
11. The required critical thinking skill needed to enhance the sharpening of one's imaginativ and
creative skills is termed as.
Conceptualization.
Evaluation
Inference
Incessant interrogative approach
12. The conscious effort of monitoring one's cognitive activities is called..
Analysis
Self -aggrandizement.
Self-improvement
Self-regulation.
13. The danger in evaluating information before interpretation and analysis is that.
no form of valid conclusion can be arrived at
one risk substituting emotion for a reason
the information will no longer be a matter of grave concern.
There is a higher probability of being emotional
14. Self- regulation can also be regarded as...
abstaining from immorality
assessing hidden motives in the minds of people
strict adherence to rules and regulation
thinking about the content of our thoughts
15. A good synthesis must achieve all of the following except to except to...
Bring creativity to bear
Develop a theory better than its components.
Synthesize information from different sources.
Lose grip of the segmented bits of information.
16. Which two critical thinking skills will help us avoid the problem of regurgitating information we
have received without making sense of it.A.Analysis and synthesis
Conceptualization and self-regulation
Inference and Evaluation
Interpretation and Explanation
3. 17. By tracing the relationship that exist between two or more pieces of information, one could be
said to be exercising the skill of.
Analysis
Explanation
Inference
Self-regulation
18. You cannot appropriately provide an explanation of something unless you have..
Asked the arguer for the right thing to do
A stock of vocabulary at your disposal
Made sense of it
Inferred all the necessary assumptions underlying
1. If critical thinking is an aggregation of skills to be learned, then....
Everyone has the device personal means of arriving at a conclusion.
It requires some form of conscious training of the mind.
People are born naturally as critical thinkers.
The processes are involved in it can never be mistaken.
2. The ultimate importance of critical thinking is.
Enhancing leadership qualities.
Ensuring smooth conversation between persons.
Making people have sense of pride.
Promoting the quality of human's lives.
3. We could regard critical thinking as a scientific because.
It has no regards for knowledge not grounded in experience
It makes our predictions true
It requires adherence to laid down procedures.
Only scientists are required to use the requisite skills of critical thinking.
4. 4. Making sense of information requires the skills of..
Explanation
Interpretation
Synthesis
Understanding
5. One characteristics of a good explanation is that it must....
Avoid the use of assumptions
Evoke emotions on the part of the audience
Provide detail or reasons to make something clearer.
Quote facts verbatim.
6. A complex text may contain a number of hidden assumptions. These assumptions could be
made exploit when one...
analyses the text.
Attempts to reconstruct the argument.
Passes judgement about the text
Rehearses the use of the complex arguments.
7. Evaluating a piece of information requires that we...
Continually criticize the information till is unacceptable to all.
Identify the strength or weakness of the information.
Praise a test until is unanimously accepted.
Protect information intellectually from being proven.
5. 8. One of the following words signals evaluation in test questions
Appraise
Analyses
Infer
Organize
9. Premises can also be inferred from conclusions.
True
False
Partially true
Partially false
10. The need for synthesis will arise because.
A simple argument is unconvincing.
A complex argument demonstrates intelligence.
Different ideas make sense if put together.
It is a lazy way to leave ideas in their basic forms.
11. The required critical thinking skill needed to enhance the sharpening of one's imaginativ and
creative skills is termed as.
Conceptualization.
Evaluation
Inference
Incessant interrogative approach
6. 12. The conscious effort of monitoring one's cognitive activities is called..
Analysis
Self -aggrandizement.
Self-improvement
Self-regulation.
13. The danger in evaluating information before interpretation and analysis is that.
no form of valid conclusion can be arrived at
one risk substituting emotion for a reason
the information will no longer be a matter of grave concern.
There is a higher probability of being emotional
14. Self- regulation can also be regarded as...
abstaining from immorality
assessing hidden motives in the minds of people
strict adherence to rules and regulation
thinking about the content of our thoughts
15. A good synthesis must achieve all of the following except to except to...
Bring creativity to bear
Develop a theory better than its components.
Synthesize information from different sources.
Lose grip of the segmented bits of information.
16. Which two critical thinking skills will help us avoid the problem of regurgitating information we
have received without making sense of it.A.Analysis and synthesis
7. Conceptualization and self-regulation
Inference and Evaluation
Interpretation and Explanation
17. By tracing the relationship that exist between two or more pieces of information, one could be
said to be exercising the skill of.
Analysis
Explanation
Inference
Self-regulation
18. You cannot appropriately provide an explanation of something unless you have..
Asked the arguer for the right thing to do
A stock of vocabulary at your disposal
Made sense of it
Inferred all the necessary assumptions underlying