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1. Describe the difference between weak-sense and strong-sense critical thinkers.

2. Interpret the five characteristics of a well-cultivated thinker.

3. Explain your own ideas about what critical thinking is.

4. Analyze the most common way that you waste time, and lay out steps that show how you can combat this tendency.

5. Explain a recent assumption you made that you should not have made. How does this relate to concepts in the textbook?

6. Identify a time where you, someone you know, or a group of people have displayed sociocentrism or egocentrism. Explain how the people acted, as well as the improper thinking that led to these actions. Finally, explain what could have been done differently and list some specific ways that these forms of thought can be eliminated from one's life. Your explanations should have reasons that support them.

7. Describe why you think that Paul and Elder include the examples of Einstein and Darwin. How do these examples differ from what we are normally taught about the best thinkers?

8. Please identify at least three of the intellectual virtues, and describe the differences between the virtues and their corresponding vices. From your own experience, present an example of the virtue or vice from each of the pairs you explain.

9. Describe the first four stages in the development of the critical thinker. Define dogmatic absolutism and subjective relativism, and explain how these are traps to the beginning thinker. Finally, present an example from your own experience that relates to one of the stages in the development of the thinker.