Ponder the 18 questions in the Critical Thinking Inventory and write down a few key words that come to mind when you read each question. After finishing the questions, review your thoughts/key words. Finally, write a 2-3-page paper, APA style, that discusses what you can do to improve your critical thinking skills in the upcoming year.
Critical Thinking Inventory
1. Exactly what influences have shaped my identity? How have they
done so? How has my self-image been affected? In what situations
am I less an individual because of these influences?
2. In what ways am I like the good thinker (as outlined in Chapter 2)1
In what ways like the poor thinker? What kinds of situations seem to
bring out my best and worst qualities?
3. To what extent has my perspective on truth been reasonable? (Refer
to Chapter 3 if necessary.)
4. How careful am I about separating hearsay and rumor from fact?
About distinguishing the known from assumptions or guesses? How
difficult is it for me to say “I don’t know”?
5. How consistent am I in taking the trouble to make my opinions
informed?
6. To what extent do I think that “mine is better” (not only the personal
“mine” but the ethnocentric “mine” as well)? In what ways has this
kind of thinking affected my view of personal problems and public
issues? To what extent does it affect my ability to listen to those who
disagree with me? My ability to control my emotions? My willing-
ness to change my mind and revise a judgment?
7. In what matters am I inclined to assume too much, take too much for
granted?
8. To what degree do I tend to have the either/or outlook, expecting
that the right answer will always be extreme and never moderate?
9. To what or to whom do I feel the strongest urge to conform? In what
situations has this conformist tendency interfered with my judgment?
10. Do I tend to be an absolutist, demanding that truth be neat and
simple, or a relativist, claiming that everyone creates his or her own
truth? In what ways has my characteristic tendency hindered my
development as a critical thinker?
11. In what matters am I most biased toward change? Am I overly
accepting of change or overly resistant to it? What is the cause of this
tendency and how can I best control it?
12. In what situations do I seek to confirm my biases rather than control
them? In what situations do I interpret evidence in a way that flatters
my bias?
13. How often do I approach issues with a double standard, overlooking
flaws in arguments that agree with mine and nitpicking those that
disagree?
14. To what extent do I tend to jump to conclusions? Do I tend to do so
more in certain areas? If so, which? Do I draw my conclusions pre-
maturely purely for the sake of convenience? Am I motivated by the
desire to sound authoritative and impress people?
15. To what extent do I overgeneralize? What kinds of stereotypes do
I most readily accept? Racial? Religious? Ethnic?
16. To what extent do I oversimplify complex matters? Am I simply un-
willing to take the trouble to learn the truth in its complexity? Or do
I feel threatened by answers that are not neat and tidy? What has
made me this way?
17. What errors of expression do I most often commit? Reasoning that if
B follows A, A must be the cause of B? Shifting the issue to avoid dif-
ficult or embarrassing discussions? Contradicting myself? Arguing
in a circle? Making meaningless statements? Confusing real with
bogus authorities? Making false analogies? Using irrational appeals?
18. Which of the following errors are most characteristic of my responses
to challenges and criticism of my ideas: automatic rejection? shifting
the burden of proof? straw man? attacking the critic rather than dis-
cussing the issue?
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