The process of critical thinking is similar to
Thesis, paragraph, SARA Model
The process of critical thinking involves four steps
1) Identify the problem
2) Review what you know about it
3) Analyze what you have remembered
4) Draw Conclusions
Agreement reality is drawn from
Culture Tradition and Authority
An example of a possible error in agreement reality is
1) Out of cultural context :( imposing ones reality upon another culture w/o sensitivity)
2) Experts making errors or speaking outside their field
Experiential reality is also known as
1st hand knowledge
Agreement reality is also known as
2nd hand knowledge
An example of a possible error in experimental reality is
our generalization
The Idea that humans are actively involved in the shaping of their physical and social environments, and are in turn shaped by those environments, is defined as
Marxian Dialectic
A______level of abstraction focuses on the processes and structures within the human body and mind, such as how the mind weighs the cost and benefits of an act or how neurotransmitters affect behavior
Micro Theoretical
A ________ level of abstraction works with social institutions or broad sociological concepts to explain crime and crime rates.
Macro Theoretical
A_________ level of abstraction helps to explain how criminality is learned within groups or how society contributes to the internalization of criminal codes.
Meso Theoretical
The logic of explanation that moves from the specific to the general, from a set of particular observations to the discovery of a pattern or theory is called
Inductive Reasoning
The logic of explanation that moves from the general to the specific, from theoretical hypotheses to empirical observations is called
Deductive Reasoning
A ______ is generally used in the context of social scientific research to mean some phenomenon that has been observed.
Fact
A ______ is an assumption about reality that is sometimes accepted to be true without proof; it is also known as a domain assumption.
Axioms
A ________ is a universal generalization about classes of facts' it is also known as a principle.
Laws
A _______ is a logical statement about the existence or nonexistence of a particular axiom within reality.
Propositions
According to the lecture notes a _____ represents the coming together of experimental and agreement realities
Theory
In the lecture notes, the professor defined______ as a statement about expected observations.
Hypothesis
Concepts are _______ in nature
Abstract
According to the lecture notes, variables are _____ in nature
abstract
Variables are defined by their
Attributes
According to the lecture notes, attributes are _____ in nature and _______.
Concrete and Measurable
A _________ represents an ensemble of theories, or an overall manner through which things are perceived
Paradigm
The science or study of ways of knowing is called
Epistemology
True or false the term epistemology is accurately defined as ones perspective or point of view
False