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Critical and creative thinking for life experience and career success The first edition of The Pearson Guide to Critical and Creative Thinking provides students with the tools, techniques, and strategies for thinking both critically and creatively. A toolbox for higher-order analytical and imaginative thinking, readers practice critical and creative thinking by applying learned theories to examples, demonstrations, and exercises. Exercises involve both individual and collaborative critical and creative thinking applications across academic disciplines, as well as in personal and professional career contexts. The clear and easy to follow writing style makes concepts and theories accessible to all students, especially in the foundational chapters. Later chapters enable students to exercise their reasoning skills and judgment by generating ideas and applying what they've learned.
Contents
In This Section:
Brief Table of Contents
Detailed Table of Contents
I) Brief Table of Contents PART ONE - INTRODUCING CRITICAL AND CREATIVE THINKING
Chapter 1. Developing Critical Thinking
Chapter 2. Developing Creative Thinking
PART TWO - CRITICAL THINKING: ANALYSIS
Chapter 3. Analyzing Language
Chapter 4. Analyzing Images
Chapter 5. Thinking, Reading, Writing
PART THREE - CRITICAL THINKING: ARGUMENT
Chapter 6. Reasoning Well: Sound Thinking
Chapter 7. Reasoning Badly: Thinking Fallacies
Chapter 8. Analyzing and Constructing Arguments
PART FOUR - CREATIVE THINKING: GENERATING IDEAS
Chapter 9. Parallel Thinking and Lateral Thinking
Chapter 10. Finding Ideas Through Imaginative Thinking
Chapter 11. Creative Whacks and Thinkertoys
PART FIVE - CREATIVE THINKING: APPLICATIONS AND EXPLORATIONS
Chapter 12. Thinking about Design
Chapter 13. Thinking about Innovation
Chapter 14. Thinking about Technology and Information
II) Detailed Table of Contents PART ONE - INTRODUCING CRITICAL AND CREATIVE THINKING
Chapter 1. Developing Critical Thinking
Learning Goals
Chapter Overview
Focusing Questions
What is Critical Thinking?
Habits of Mind
Overcoming Obstacles to Thinking
A Model for Critical Thinking
Thinking about Thinking: How We Know What We Know
Focus on Perception: Perception and Knowledge
Being Wrong
Intuitions and Rationalizations
The Pleasures and Benefits of Error
The Perspective of Philosophy
Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Resources
Chapter 2. Developing Creative Thinking
Learning Goals
Chapter Overview
Focusing Questions
What is Creative Thinking?
Seeking Alternatives and Possibilities
Broadening Perception
Reversing Relationships
Cross-Fertilization
Shifting Attention
Denying the Negative, Pursuing the Possible
The Eight Commandments of Ideation
SCAMPER
The Creative Habit
Developing Creative Confidence
Idea Killers and Idea Growers
Creative Questioning
Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Resources
PART TWO - CRITICAL THINKING: ANALYSIS
Chapter 3. Analyzing Language
Learning Goals
Chapter Overview
Focusing Questions
Language Saturation
Words
The Prevalence of Metaphor
Language and Thought
Reports, Inferences, and Judgments
Language and Critical Analysis
An Approach to Analysis
Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Resources
Chapter 4. Analyzing Images
Learning Goals
Chapter Overview
Focusing Questions
The Prevalence and Power of Images
Image, Icon, Symbol, Sign
The Vocabulary of Comics
Images with Words: Analyzing an Advertisement
Observations and Analysis: Allen Edmonds Shoe Ad
Images, Ideas and Emotion
Comparing Representational and Abstract Images
A Graphic Novel: Shaun Tan's The Arrival
Two Powerful Images
Moving Images: The Power of Movies
The Attraction of Movies
Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Resources
Chapter 5. Thinking, Reading, Writing
Learning Goals
Chapter Overview
Focusing Questions
Why Read?
The Pleasures of Reading
Kinds of Reading
Why Write?
The Pleasures of Writing
Kinds of Writing
Active Reading
The Interpretive Impulse
An Approach to Reading and Writing
Summarizing and Paraphrasing
Evaluation—Judging and Considering Values
Writing to Evaluate a Text
The Value of Reading
Digital Reading
Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Resources
PART THREE - CRITICAL THINKING: ARGUMENT
Chapter 6. Reasoning Well: Sound Thinking
Learning Goals
Chapter Overview
Focusing Questions
The Pervasiveness of Argument
What is an Argument?
Argument Basics: Claims, Evidence, Assumptions
Argument and Implications
Going Further Into Evidence: Claims, Warrants, Backing
Inductive and Deductive Reasoning
Syllogisms and Argument
Argument and Authority
Argument and Analogy
Argument and Causality
Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Resources
Chapter 7. Reasoning Badly: Thinking Fallacies
Learning Goals
Chapter Overview
Focusing Questions
How Thinking Goes Wrong
Fallacies—Errors in Reasoning
Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Resources
Chapter 8. Analyzing and Constructing Arguments
Learning Goals
Chapter Overview
Focusing Questions
Analyzing Arguments
Logic and Rhetoric
Logos, Ethos, Pathos
Argument and Eloquence—"Letter from Birmingham Jail"
Constructing Arguments
Guidelines for Constructing an Argument
Argument and the Classical Oration
Rogerian Argument
Cultural Relativism
Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Resources
PART FOUR - CREATIVE THINKING: GENERATING IDEAS
Chapter 9. Parallel Thinking and Lateral Thinking
Learning Goals
Chapter Overview
Focusing Questions
Thinking Tools
Six Thinking Hats
Lateral Thinking
Concepts
Essences
Concepts as Cognitive Tools
Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Resources
Chapter 10. Finding Ideas Through Imaginative Thinking
Learning Goals
Chapter Overview
Focusing Questions
The Priority of Imagination
Imagination First: Unlocking Possibility
Why Imagination?
Imagination, Creativity, Innovation
Capacities for Imaginative Thinking
Raising Your Imagination Quotient
The Limits of Imagination
What is an Idea?
Why Ideas are Important
How to Get Ideas
Creation and Destruction
Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Resources
Chapter 11. Creative Whacks and Thinkertoys
Learning Goals
Chapter Overview
Focusing Questions
Creative Whacks
Explorer, Artist, Judge, Warrior
Thinkertoys
Using Paradox
Combining Things
Thinking the Unthinkable
Walt Disney—Dreamer, Realist, Critic
Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Resources
PART FIVE - CREATIVE THINKING: APPLICATIONS AND EXPLORATIONS
Chapter 12. Thinking about Design
Learning Goals
Chapter Overview
Focusing Questions
What We Talk About When We Talk About Design
Design and Everyday Life
The Design of Processes
Good and Bad Design
Levels of Design
Design and Human Behavior
Designing for Error
Paradoxes of Design
Principles of Design
Design Constraints and Compromises
Anti-Design
Design Thinking
Design, Art, and Society
Design and Truth
Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Resources
Chapter 13. Thinking about Innovation
Learning Goals
Chapter Overview
Focusing Questions
What is Innovation?
Principles of Innovation
Conditions of Innovation
Innovation and Resonance
Innovation Myths and Innovation Drivers
Inadvertent Discoveries
Achieving Insights
Group and Solo Innovation
Where Good Ideas Come From
Creating Innovators
Zig-Zag Innovation
Social Innovation
What Thwarts Innovation?
Balancing Innovation Factors
Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Resources
Chapter 14. Thinking about Technology and Information
Learning Goals
Chapter Overview
Focusing Questions
The Power and Promise of Technology
The Internet and Responsibility
Into the Electronic Millennium
Technology Education
Technopoly
Technology and Ethics
Social Networking
Does Facebook Reduce Life to a Data Base?
The Implications of Artificial Intelligence
Technology and Our Brains
Digital Citizenship
Technology and Information
The River of Knowledge
The Trustworthiness of Information
Big Data
Information, Privacy, and Political Control
Information, Meaning, and Knowledge
Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Resources
