TEXTBOOK(S) AND REQUIRED MATERIALS:
Please answer any two of the following essay questions in a Word Document that you will submit. The work must be original and individually composed. Remember to both demonstrate and discuss critical thinking in your answers.
1. Use the five-step problem-solving method to show how you might solve one of the following two problems (remember to consider several alternatives and the advantages and disadvantages of each alternative):
1. On your way to school one morning, you see a person being robbed. What should you do?
2. You return to your house after being away on vacation and you find that everything from your apartment is gone. What should you do?
2. Think critically about either situation described in question 1, part a or part b, by writing three critical questions about this problem. Tell which of the six categories of critical questions your questions belong in, and why.
Example: For part a, did the robber have a gun?
Category: Fact based, since it asks us to supply a specific piece of information
3. Choose one of the following issues a through d. Discuss by considering the issue from two different perspectives; then tell which side you agree with and why. Support both sides with reasons and evidence. You may choose to answer in the form of a dialogue between person A and person B.
1. Should we increase the age at which it is legal to buy cigarettes?
2. Should gay couples be allowed to adopt children?
3. Should women work at jobs traditionally held by men?
4. Should young children who have been adopted ever be “returned” to their natural parents afterward?
4. Answer either a or b.
1. Do you believe that your environment influences your perception of the world? Describe your
lenses of perception to support your answer to this question.
2. How did your lenses of perception make you notice certain people on the way to school today? How would you describe your lenses?
5. Answer both a and b.
1. What did your voice of judgment (VOJ) tell you about how well you would perform in this
course, and how well you would perform on this test?
2. What are three things you might do to overcome your VOJ to perform better on exams and in your class work and change the negative way(s) in which you judge yourself?