Critical Thinking: Challenging Assumptions
Everyone
- 6 videos | 23m 6s
- Includes Assessment
- Earns a Badge
- CPE
Every day, we make hundreds of assumptions based on facts, observations, and experiences. Some are useful time savers, but some are based on a weak premise or poor data and can lead to jumping to a conclusion without asking questions or listening to other people's input. When a decision is based on assumptions and prejudices, it mitigates the opportunity for innovation and creativity. Examining your assumptions requires small changes, but the payoff is significant. In this course, you'll learn how assumptions manifest and what power they have on decision making and innovation. You'll learn practices to redirect automatic assumption-based thinking into critical thinking as well as questioning techniques to identify assumptions so you can mitigate their impact. You'll also learn techniques to help you investigate assumptions thoroughly and how to systematically test them, which will give you the best chance of making the best decisions.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
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Discover the key concepts covered in this course
Choose critical-thinking practices that create awareness to redirect automatic thinking into controlled thinking
Identify lines of questioning that help you detect assumptions that might impact decision making -
Select techniques to help you investigate assumptions thoroughly
Identify a sequence for testing assumptions
Reflect on what you've learned
IN THIS COURSE
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1m 16sEveryone makes assumptions. Some are useful, grounded in experience and evidence. But many others aren't and can lead to poor decision-making. Examining your assumptions is a crucial part of critical thinking. In this video, you'll learn the key concepts that will be covered in this course, including how to identify and investigate your own assumptions. FREE ACCESS
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5m 34sTo move toward critical thinking, you must first acknowledge that everyone routinely makes assumptions. It's one of the ways that our brains process the huge amount of information we take in. But it’s not always the best way of making decisions or solving problems. In this video, you'll explore critical-thinking practices that create awareness in order to redirect automatic thinking into controlled thinking. FREE ACCESS
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3. Detecting Assumptions through Questioning4m 33sReaching successful conclusions requires developing your questioning skills. You can use different kinds of questions to uncover incorrect assumptions, open new lines of inquiry, and reveal the truth about a situation. In this video, you'll identify lines of questioning that help you detect assumptions that might impact decision-making. FREE ACCESS
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4. Drilling Down into an Assumption5m 35sInvestigating assumptions starts with exploring their origins to get insight into their validity. This involves asking a lot of questions, especially questions starting with “why.” In this video, you'll learn about techniques for helping you investigate assumptions thoroughly. FREE ACCESS
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5. Testing Assumptions Systematically4m 49sAs with any worthwhile investigation, looking into your assumptions takes time and effort. And when you’ve completed your inquiry, there’s still more work to do: In this video, you will learn the sequence of actions for testing your assumptions. FREE ACCESS
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6. Let's Review1m 19sIn this video, you will be able to review and reflect on what you've learned in the course Critical Thinking: Challenging Assumptions. FREE ACCESS
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