Critical Thinking: A Student’s Introduction 6th edition by Gregory Bassham test bank
conclusions; and to make reasonable, intelligent decisions about what to believe and what to do.
Logic
Critical thinking
Rationality
Intelligence
Which of the following critical thinking hindrances is not discussed in detail in this chapter?
prejudice
egocentrism
sociocentrism
wishful thinking
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Which of the following is true of tribalism?
Extreme tribalism is easy to recognize as it is usually a conscious and voluntary emotion.
The emotion is usually pronounced during periods of stress or perceived threat.
It is considered to be a form of superiority bias.
It refers to individuals dissociating themselves from their social group.
Conformism is a form of _____.
rationalization
sociocentrism
provincialism
short-term thinking
Self-interested thinking is a form of _____.
emotive thinking
short-term thinking
sociocentrism
egocentrism
The researcher who used electrical shocks to demonstrate the power of conformism was _____.
Jean Piaget
Stanley Milgram
Solomon Asch
Abraham Maslow
Critical thinking is marked by _____.
clarity
completeness
consistency
All of the answers are correct
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A course in critical thinking can improve students' ability to _____.
understand course materials
critically evaluate course materials
argue effectively for their own views on course topics
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Which of the following reflects group-centered thinking?
egocentrism
sociocentrism
group bias
the herd instinct
_____ is the tendency to overrate oneself.
Superiority bias
Egocentrism
Sociocentrism
Vanity
_____ is the tendency to conform, often unthinkingly, to authority or to group standards of conduct and belief.
Authoritarianism
The lemming instinct
Sociocentrism
Conformism
The classic 1950s experiment in which students were asked to match a standard line with three comparison lines in order to test the power of peer
pressure was conducted by _____.
Sigmund Freud
Stanley Milgram
B. F. Skinner
Solomon Asch
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_____ are generalizations about a group of people in which identical characteristics are assigned to all or virtually all members of the group, often without
regard to whether such attributions are accurate.
Stereotypes
Biases
Assumptions
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Amber notices that a few currency notes are missing from her purse kept on her coffee table. She immediately holds Lily, the housemaid, accountable for
it because the previous housemaid who was from the same village as Lily had stolen money from Amber's house. In this case, Amber's thought process
reflects _____.
hasty generalization
superiority bias
narcissism
relativistic thinking
_____ is the view that truth is a matter of individual opinion.
Relativism
Subjectivism
Emotivism
Individualism
_____ is the view that truth is a matter of social or cultural opinion.
Cultural relativism
Subjectivism
Nonabsolutism
Majoritarianism
_____ is the view that what is morally right and good for an individual is whatever that person believes is morally right and good.
Conventionalism
Moral anti-realism
Moral subjectivism
Preferentialism
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