CAS 100B Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Critical Thinking, Fallacy, Ad Hominem

• School: PSU
• Department: Communication Arts and Sciences
• Course: CAS 100B
• Professor: buterbaugh

Document Summary

Critical thinking: thinking used when analyzing and evaluating what you see, hear, or read in order to arrive at justified conclusion or decision. Argumentation: how group members use critical thinking to advocate proposals, examine ideas, and influence one another. Value of argumentation in groups: promotes understanding and critical thinking, decreases risk of groupthink, improves group decision making (examine all options), values minority opinions. Toulmin model of argument: claim, evidence, warrant (why does evidence lead to conclusion), backing (support for warrant), reservation (recognizes exceptions), qualifier (degree to which claim appears to be true- likely, certainly, probably. Fact: verifiable observation, experience, event, something known to be true. Claim of fact: attempts to prove something is true, an event occurred, or cause did have an effect. Claim of conjecture: suggests something will or will not happen (college enrollment will increase by 5 percent next year) Claim of value: asserts something is worthwhile (my instructor is the best professor)