Exam 1: Thinking

You do not need to develop and make full use of your thinking potential in order to create a richly fulfilling life.

Achieving the goal of becoming an educated thinker involves two core processes, thinking critically and _______.

Using our thinking process to develop ideas that are unique, useful and worthy of further elaboration is ________.

As a critical thinker, you must pay attention to the ways in which images can________your beliefs and goals.

Each chapter of Thinking Critically includes a feature that challenges you to apply new thinking strategies to pairs of images that provoke the viewer into finding connections, confronting beliefs, and questioning evidence.This feature is called _________.

When we are_________ , we avoid rigid, reflexive behavior in favor of a more improvisational and intuitive response to life.

When we restate a judgment in a more accurate or constructive way, we

An important part of becoming an educated thinker is learning to make_____________.

Creative thinking teaches us that there are many different ways of experiencing and communicating information.

The Greek philosopher Socrates told the citizens of Athens "the unexamined life is not worth living."

In the method for making decisions, the text lists five steps.The last step is

A step in cultivating your creative garden is________ .

Living your life creatively means bringing your unique__________ to all dimensions of your life.

One myth about creativity is that it is restricted to those who are____________ .

The intuitive understanding that a single thing is, or could be, many things according to how you look at it is at the heart of the attitude Langer calls _______.

For much of the twentieth century, Rollo May writes, researchers perceived creativity as unscientific.

Research suggests that people typically achieve their highest creative point______ .

Long-term goals are fairly simple to identify.

Creativity involves going beyond the information given to create or reveal something new.

Research reveals high achieving people are able to envision a detailed picture of their future with goals and aspirations clearly inscribed and low achievers live in the present and the past.