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Examination Questions for Chapter 4: The

Interdisciplinary Studies “Cognitive Toolkit”

CHAPTER 4
Level 1: Remembering or recalling factual information

1. What is the interdisciplinary studies cognitive toolkit?

a. The intellectual capacities, values, traits, and skills that interdisciplinary
studies fosters
b. Strong sense critical thinking
c. Perspective taking and humility

Ans: A
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Answer Location: The Interdisciplinary Studies “Cognitive Toolkit”
Question Type: MC
Difficulty Level: Easy

2. The intellectual capacity to view a problem or subject or artifact from

alternative viewpoints, including disciplinary ones, in order to develop a more
comprehensive understanding of it is called
a. Perspective taking.
b. Critical analysis.

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c. Personal opinion.

Ans: A
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Answer Location: Intellectual Capacities
Question Type: MC
Difficulty Level: Easy

3. The capacity to analyze, critique, and assess is called

a. Taking perspective.
b. Forming an opinion.
c. Critical thinking.

Ans: C
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Answer Location: Intellectual Capacities
Question Type: MC
Difficulty Level: Easy

4. Favoring one discipline’s understanding of the problem at the expense of

competing understandings of the same problem offered by other
disciplines is called

a. Disciplinary bias.
b. Personal opinion.
c. Perspective taking.

Ans: A
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Answer Location: Values
Question Type: MC
Difficulty Level: Easy

5. Allowing your own point of view (e.g., your politics, faith tradition,
cultural identity) to influence how you understand or approach the
problem is called

a. Disciplinary bias.
b. Critical thinking.
c. Personal bias.

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Ans: C
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Answer Location: Values
Question Type: MC
Difficulty Level: Easy

6. The awareness of your own learning and thinking processes, often

described as “thinking about your thinking” is called

a. Metacognition.
b. Personal bias.
c. Thinking outside the box.

Ans: A
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Answer Location: Skills
Question Type: MC
Difficulty Level: Easy

7. The story of your academic or intellectual journey told from your point of
view is called

a. Metacognition.
b. An intellectual autobiography.
c. Personal bias.

Ans: B
Learning Objective: LO 3
Answer Location: Ways to Apply Your Interdisciplinary “Toolkit”
Question Type: MC
Difficulty Level: Easy

8. A teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community

service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience,
teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities is called

a. Service learning.
b. Strong Sense Critical Thinking
c. Metacognition.

Ans: A

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Learning Objective: LO 3
Answer Location: Ways to Apply Your Interdisciplinary “Toolkit”
Question Type: MC
Difficulty Level: Easy

9. Self-conscious, careful thinking about your behavior and beliefs, why you
made certain choices at various points, and how these choices have
affected the outcome is called

a. Perspective taking.
b. Critical examination.
c. Self-reflection.

Ans: C
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Answer Location: Traits
Question Type: MC
Difficulty Level: Easy

10. A collection of your work, which is gathered in a form that can be shared
with an audience is called

a. A portfolio.
b. A literature review.
c. Community Engagement

Ans: A
Learning Objective: LO 3
Answer Location: Ways to Apply Your Interdisciplinary “Toolkit”
Question Type: MC
Difficulty Level: Easy

Level 2: Understanding key concepts and theories

11. In the context of interdisciplinary studies, this intellectual capacity is a

positive attitude that recognizes the limits of one’s training and expertise
and seeks to overcome these limits by drawing on expertise from multiple
disciplines.

a. Tolerance of ambiguity.

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b. Humility.
c. Civic engagement.

Ans: B
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Answer Location: The Interdisciplinary Studies “Cognitive Toolkit”
Question Type: MC
Difficulty Level: Easy

Level 3: Applying concepts to specific situations that are hypothetical or real world

12. The increasing turnover in the job market is a reality that you, as an
interdisciplinary student, can turn to your advantage by

a. Emphasizing your disciplinary training.

b. Recognizing that an interdisciplinary education by definition does not silo you
into one career path.
c. Avoiding those jobs and careers that are characterized by high turnover.

Ans: B
Learning Objective: LO 1, 2, 3
Answer Location: Ch 4
Question Type: MC
Difficulty Level: Easy

13. The painting “Two Men and a Donkey” illustrates the importance of
this key interdisciplinary concept:

a. Metacognition.
b. Systems thinking.
c. Perspective taking.

Ans: C
Learning Objective: LO 2
Answer Location: Intellectual Capacities
Question Type: MC
Difficulty Level: Easy

14. Interdisciplinary studies fosters this intellectual capacity which is at the

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heart of the interdisciplinary process and involves critically evaluating

disciplinary insights and locating their sources of conflict, creating
common ground among them and constructing a more comprehensive
understanding of the problem. This capacity is

a. Empathy.
b. Integration.
c. Self-reflection.

Ans: B
Learning Objective: LO 1, 2
Answer Location: The Interdisciplinary Studies “Cognitive Toolkit”
Question Type: MC
Difficulty Level: Easy

15. Maya Lin embraced this interdisciplinary value which did not permit her
to use the memorial as a vehicle for publicizing her personal view of the
Vietnam War:
a. Ethical consciousness.
b. Critical thinking.
c. Integration.

Ans: A
Learning Objective: LO 1, 2
Answer Location: Values
Question Type: MC
Difficulty Level: Easy

16. The great value of interdisciplinary studies is that it challenges us to

confront difference but to do so in a way that respects different
viewpoints. This value, needed especially in collaborative learning and
research contexts, is

a. Metacognition.
b. Appreciation of diversity.
c. Critical analysis.

Ans: B
Learning Objective: LO 1, 2
Answer Location: Values
Question Type: MC

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Difficulty Level: Easy

17. The primary and overall objective of Chapter 4 is to

a. Critically analyze Maya Lin’s Vietnam Memorial.

b. Introduce you to the “cognitive toolkit” of interdisciplinary studies.
c. Explain the benefits of civic engagement.

Ans: B
Learning Objective: LO 1, 2
Answer Location: CH 4
Question Type: MC
Difficulty Level: Easy

Level 4: Analyzing (a text or case or hypothetical situation to identify its parts and
explain its meaning)

18. Reflecting on “The Fable of the Elephant House,” the absence of this
Interdisciplinary intellectual capacity doomed the project to failure:

a. Perspective Taking
b. Civic engagement.
c. Metacognition.

Ans: A
Learning Objective: LO 2
Answer Location: Intellectual Capacities
Question Type: MC
Difficulty Level: Easy

Level 5: Evaluating (a text or case or hypothetical situation to see if it meets certain

criteria)

19. “I do not choose to overlay personal commentary on historical facts. I am

interested in presenting factual information, allowing viewers the chance
to come to their own conclusions,” Maya Lin writes of her approach to
designing the Vietnam Memorial. Her approach models the intellectual
capacity of

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a. Service Learning
b. Ethical Consciousness
c. Empathy

Ans: B
Learning Objective: LO 1
Answer Location: The Interdisciplinary Studies “Cognitive Toolkit”
Question Type: MC
Difficulty Level: Easy

20. If you were asked to evaluate the plan to erect a parking lot on land that, if
it were sold, would mean that you would lose financially as a result, your bringing of
this fact to light demonstrates which of the following

a. Humility, Strong Sense Critical Thinking, and Tolerance of Ambiguity

b. Personal Bias, Appreciation for Diversity, Metacognition
c. Ethical Consciousness

Ans: C
Learning Objective: LO 1,2
Answer Location: The Interdisciplinary Studies “Cognitive Toolkit”
Question Type: MC
Difficulty Level: Easy

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