Theory Xacc 280 Week 4 Critical Thinking Model

Midterms had ended, everything comes back to normal. The past couple days not only my roommates and me had gone through a really busy study week. No matter what the result is, we had all tried our best to conquer them. Film as my major, requires my critical thinking skills while viewing the movies. However, in the last midterm it had made me reconsider my critical thinking skill for future.

The brain is considered the most complex organ in the body. It is responsible for controlling motor function, the body’s ability to balance and the ability to translate information sent to the brain by sensory organs. The mind is described as the faculty of consciousness and thought. It’s where our feeling and emotions originate from and defines who we are as a person. The brain is composed of the visual cortex, which is responsible for processing visual information. In blind individuals the feature that makes up visions still exists in the visual cortex. These features are now used to process information received from the other senses. However, blind individuals are able to view the images because what’s in their mind.

In this study, the professor asked 15 students in his Introductory Psychology class to volunteer to take the smart pill at the start of the semester. The other 15 students in the class who did not volunteer did not take the pill. This was not random assignment because this subject was not an unbiased division, and the professor didn’t create equal groups; therefore, it could affect the result. In general, volunteers do better than non-volunteers because volunteers have more motivation than the people who didn’t volunteer. For example, in the “tutoring study”, people who signed up for tutoring were doing much better than the people who did not sign up for tutoring because the people who sign up care about their grade; on

While the media might not directly contribute to discrimination, the media is undoubtedly a significant aspect of modern day society that influences how people think about racial issues (Royce, 2009, p. 1, 17). Many people claim that racism no longer exists; however, the minorities’ struggle with injustice is ubiquitous. Whites are attempting to keep blacks and other minority families locked into an impoverished political and economic position by using various tactics to isolate them, such as mass incarceration that stems from the War on Drugs. The New Jim Crow helps us in seeing how history is repeating itself and how to legalized discrimination among the blacks and Hispanics by implementing the mass incarceration.

The memorandum from Salvador Monella to the Board of Directors addresses the rising costs of employee healthcare benefits at Penn-Mart. His communication includes an explanation of his purpose in addressing the healthcare costs, findings regarding Penn-Mart’s benefits costs, a recommended program to implement for cost reduction, and a discussion containing support for their recommendation. While some business people may be tempted to simply accept the information presented in Mr. Monella’s memorandum, it is my opinion, after reading Browne and Keeley’s Asking the Right Questions (2012), that adopting a critical thinking approach is the most effective way to evaluate the document.

Rate each of the following statements as TRUE or FALSE. Justify your answer with an example or explanation to prove and illustrate your understanding. DO NOT OMIT THIS PART OF THE TEST. True/False answers can be guessed. But when you defend your answer by example or explanation, you demonstrate not only your memory and understanding but also that you can apply what you have learned. The first question is answered for you.

The main point of Hydroxycut is to help loose weight in a fast amount of time just like every woman wants diamonds, I think that everyone wants that youthful looking body back as well. We all want the energy that we had as a youth and the metabolism as well so that we can eat whatever

Previously we were assigned a critical thinking exercise that consisted of reviewing a PowerPoint over Appendix 14A. Appendix 14A covered different debt restructuring and modification of terms options for companies and how you would go about recording them. The most theoretically challenging aspect of this material for me had to deal with the problem I was assigned in class. I did not understand why there would be no interest expense recorded even though there was a gain. I would assume theoretically that since Barkley is still paying off the note an interest expense would have to be recorded, however, I learned otherwise. An interest expense is not recorded because the payable is only being reduced by an amount

We are on week four, time is going by fast. I Just got home and went strait to my office, I want to get the class started, I am happy about my graded test last week I did well.

You are a member of a group working on a class project. The group members are enthusiastic about the project and arrange a meeting time to begin planning. You forget to mark your calendar and miss the meeting. The group posts a summary of the meeting with assignments and deadlines for the project. You apologize to the group and agree to complete the topic research for the project. You realize you have a paper due in another course on the same day that your research is due, and you concentrate most of your time on your individual assignment. The paper takes longer than you thought, and you are unable to conduct research for the group

3. Meaning/Purpose - In the biblical/Christian Worldview our purpose in life is to build a relationship with God through his son Jesus Christ. We are also to spread the message of Jesus to others so that they may be saved as well. As Buddhists do not believe in God, they believe our purpose in life is to eliminate our suffering and stop the cycle of reincarnation.

The most impactful elective course that I took in my undergraduate program was PHIL211 Critical Thinking. My learning in this course revealed the many barriers that I had that were inhibiting my ability to discern truths from falsehoods. When I exposed the defects in my thinking, I was able to overcome the defective biases, prejudices, close-mindedness, intolerance and arrogance distorting my reasoning. Eliminating these to become a more rational and inquisitive thinker. This course encouraged students to think about thinking actively. When doing this I could question previously held ideas about myself and others and evaluate how these ideas could be holding me back in my experiences, relationships, and new opportunities.

I agree with both of you it’s important for the supervisor to have direct contact with his or her employees. Not only does management need to oversee the daily actives of his or her employees but establish a good relationship as well. In any organization building a rapport with customers is a vital part of customer service.

Problem employees inevitably surface in most workplaces and sometimes employers need to counsel their employees and on occasions employers must discipline the employee. In an organization top-management often formulate the standards that supervisors must use when they have to deal with problem employees. A supervisor must have the skills required to organize, staff, lead, and control which includes the ability and talent required to deal with problem employees.

The lack of clarity can cause chaos, confusion, and frustration for both the employee and supervisor. According to Ditzler (1994), clarity helps to employees grow in their understanding of the expectations that are required and how they will be evaluated by those expectations (para. 2). This advantage helps to decrease the performance gap that might exist. When there is clarity the