Marygrove College Phl276: Critical Thinking Quiz1

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1. What is the professor's name?

Peterson

Patterson

Johnson

Stevens

All of the above

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Marygrove College Phl276: Critical Thinking Quiz1 - Quiz

Quiz 1 on the Syllabus and Biases and Heuristics

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2. When, if ever does the professor accept late work?

Always

Always, but only with permission

Never

Everything is negotiable in America

None of the above

3. When do quizzes happen?

There are no quizzes.

Quizzes happen every two weeks.

Quizzes happen individually, by arrangement with the professor.

Quizzes happen every week.

None of the above

4. How many homework assignments may be missed without penalty?

None

Only one

Two

Three

There are no homework assignments in this class.

5. Which of the following tasks should any serious attempt to think critically begin?

One should note one's immediate reaction to what has been said.

One should psychoanalyze the person making the claim.

One should simply accept what has been said as true.

One should seek to get a clear understanding of what has been said.

All of the above

6. What is a heuristic, for purposes of cognitive psychology?

A heuristic is a slow, careful, detailed process of reasoning that maximizes the use of cognitive resources.

A heuristic is a "gut check".

A heuristic is a systematic error in thinking that arises from misapplication.

None of the above

7. What is a bias, in terms of cognitive psychology?

A bias is an "intuitively satisfying" mistake that arises from the misapplication of heuristic strategies.

A bias is when you treat others badly for reason but your own prejudices.

All of the above

None of the above

8. Suppose that Jeane's daughter, Michelle, goes out with her friends one night using the family car. When Jeane gets in the car to go to work the next morning, the car won't start. Jeane storms into the house angrily and wakes Michelle up, demanding "What did you do to the car last night? It won't start!"

There is a good chance that Jeane is exhibiting what bias in this case?

The above average effect

The gambler's fallacy

Honoring sunk costs

The fundamental attribution error

All of the above

9. Which of the following are basic, necessary conditions for "debiasing"?

Awareness of the bias (or its possibility)

Motivation to correct the biased thinking

Awareness of the direction and magnitude of the bias

The ability, through mental discipline, to adjust one's own responses to the situation that gives rise to the bias

All of the above

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