COURSE: CRITICAL THINKING

DATE: February, 2022

LECTURER: Mrs. Sheila Hanley

Answer all questions and submit in google classroom.

1. List four (4) barriers to critical thinking.

2. List two (2) facilitators to critical thinking.
3. Identify four (4) critical thinking standards.
4. Which critical thinking standard is violated here; “You should not use clichés, I tell you, they
should be avoided like the plague. I like to keep my shoulders to the wheel.”
5. Identify three (3) areas where critical thinking is important.
6. Give the opposite for these barriers; closemindedness, bias, irrational behavior, distrust in
reason, short-term thinking.
7. Identify four (4) characteristics of critical thinkers and the four (4) corresponding characteristics
of uncritical thinkers.
8. Define what an argument is.
9. List the two types of arguments.