Question 1: How does critical thinking differ from typical ordinary thinking? Support your response with material from the required reading.
Question 2: How do strong-sense and weak-sense critical thinking differ? What are the pros and cons of each? Why is strong-sense critical thinking usually so much more difficult to achieve than is weak-sense?
There are three parts to this question:
A) Recall a specific time when strong feelings interfered with your ability to think critically.
B) How might you prevent your strong feelings from interfering with your critical thinking during times when you would prefer to think critically?
C) Per the list of common types of cognitive biases featured in the content lecture pages, what bias(es) might you have been using in the situation you were in (A), above?
Strong feelings often interfere with the ability to think critically. What can you do to reduce any negative impact of such feelings?