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Clearly identify your assumptions and make sure they are justifiable.  We would find this statement or guideline associated with which of the elements of thought?

When a person is aware of her own prejudices and biases and is willing to consider others’ points of view, he is demonstrating

Which of the critical thinking standards emphasizes the importance of “keeping the main thing, the main thing?”In other words, we must focus on what’s important and not on the trivial.

Jim is conducting interviews for a position with his company.  A young man applies for the position who has several piercings and tattoos on his neck and arms.  Although the young man is appropriately dressed in suit and tie and answers Jim’s questions with good answers, Jim tunes him out because he cannot get past the piercings and tattoos.  Which barrier is Jim having difficulty overcoming?

Sally is in college but doesn’t think it is important to study.  In addition she has no job, nor is she actively seeking one.  Sally tells everyone that one day she will be a millionaire and live in a large home on her own private island, own a yacht and have all the money she will ever need.  Which barrier is keeping Sally from being a critical thinker?

Often you will hear someone make statements like these: “What’s right or wrong is a matter of personal opinion.”  “ Abortion may be right for her but wrong for me.”  These statements demonstrate which barrier to critical thinking?

Katie and Nancy have been assigned a case study in Bioethics.  Because the problem is complex and involves multiple difficulties to be addressed, Katie suggests that they take the larger problem and break it down into important individual parts which can be looked at separately.  They are practicing which CT skill?

Gabriel is working with her team to develop a class presentation and tells team members that they need to make sure conclusions follow from evidence so that point A leads to point B and point B leads to point C, etc.  Which critical thinking standard is she emphasizing?

Deciduous trees shed their leaves in the fall.  The pecan tree in my yard sheds its leaves in the fall.  The pecan tree is a deciduous tree.  When we reach conclusions through connecting points we have used which of the critical thinking standard?

The RED MODEL is an approach to the steps of critical thinking.  Of the questions below which one would be asked as a part of the Evaluate Step of that model?