1. Applying Your Critical Thinking Skills
Chapter 6
Applying Your Critical Thinking Skills

2. Strategy for Problem Solving
Step 1: Be alert for problems
Step 2: Express the problem
Step 3: List possible solutions
Step 4: Select and refine your best solution
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3. Guidelines for Successful Relationships
Acknowledge other people
Be generous with compliments, stingy with criticism and/or advice
Keep your moods to yourself
Expect more of yourself and less of others
Make allowances for differences of opinion
Be sensitive to others’ feelings
Balance talking with listening
Think before speaking
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4. Guidelines for Successful Relationships (cont’d)
Purge negative emotions
Refrain from gossiping
Apologize when you are wrong
Forgive when you are wronged
Be a peacemaker
Meet your responsibilities to others
Look for opportunities to be kind
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5. Ethical judgments are the decisions people make about the rightness or wrongness of human behavior
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6. Requirements of Respect for Persons
“That each and every person should be regarded as worthy of sympathetic consideration, and should be so treated . . .
“That no person should be regarded as a mere possession, or used as a mere instrument, or treated as a mere obstacle, to another’s satisfaction . . .
“That persons are not and ought never to be treated in any undertaking as mere expendables”
--Errol E. Harris
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7. Criteria for Ethical Judgment
Obligations
Moral Ideals
Consequences
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8. Strategy for Ethical Judgment
Step 1: Examine the situation for obligations and relevant moral ideals
Step 2: Determine possible actions and their consequences
Step 3: Decide which action honors obligations and moral ideals and produce most desirable consequences
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9. Advertising Techniques
Bandwagon
Glittering generality
Empty comparison
Meaningless slogan
Testimonial
Transfer
Stacking the deck
Misleading statement
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10. Elements of Film Characters Setting Plot Theme
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11. Questions About Internet Sites
Whose site is this?
What function does the site serve?
Which statements are facts and which are opinions?
Where can statements of fact be confirmed?
How widely shared is this opinion? What do authorities on the subject think of it?
Is the reasoning behind the opinion logical?
Does the evidence support the opinion?
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