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After reading this chapter you should be able to:
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1. Define creative thinking and explain why it is important to small group problem solving. |
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2. Describe brainstorming, synectics, and mind mapping, and explain how they can be used to help enhance group creativity. |
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3. Define critical thinking and explain why it is important to small group problem solving. |
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4. List and describe the attitudes most conducive to critical thinking in a group. |
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5. Explain how group members should use critical thinking during the information-gathering stage of problem solving. |
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6. Describe and give examples of each of the five steps crucial to evaluating information. |
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7. Define and give examples of each of the five reasoning errors described in the text: overgeneralizations, attacks on a person instead of the argument, confusing causal relationships, either-or thinking, and incomplete comparisons. |