Study Guide for Quiz 3

Quiz 3 will be during our last class next week and will cover the following topics from the book, syllabus, and lectures.  Please be sure to read the chapters in the textbook!  There are 20 multiple choice, T&F, and fill in questions worth 20 pts.

Don't forget that the academic speaker, athletic and cultural events deadline and Community Service projects are due by this Friday, December 7, 2007 by 5pm for both classes.   You can drop these papers off to my office at the FYE office at 60 Solon Campus Center.

 

Textbook Chp. 4 (Critical Thinking- pp 87-112):

critical thinking is thinking about our thinking.  It helps us to do the following:

*better communications

*uncover bias and prejudice

*helps us to deal with deception and half-truths

*willingness to change our point of view

*learn the difference between opinions and facts

*gets rid of assumptions we may have

*it helps us to make good conclusions and offer good solutions to problems

Creative thinking is dealing with Perspectives.  Perspectives are a 'point of view' that form the basis for and guides the thinking process.  To engage in creative thinking, we must:

* take new information

*evaluate the perspective- brainstorm, focus, think about it

* decide whether to accept or compromise

Things that get in the way of our critical thinking process include personal beliefs or bias, resistance to change, wishful thinking, ethnocentricity (ethnic background thinking) and reliance on authority.  If we are to be independent thinkers while we are in college, we must be open to new ideas, different kinds of people and their beliefs, cultural diversity acceptance and tolerance, etc.

Cultural Diversity ( textbook , Chp. 8- p. 217- 240)

+ what is meant by 'diversity'?- accepting, tolerating, and understanding other people different than you .  It could be sexual orientation, cultural backgrounds, religious beliefs, different ethnic or racial backgrounds, different political beliefs, etc. We need to be open minded and to think critically about these situations and understand why we might feel uncomfortable being around someone that is different than us. 

+ We need to understand prejudice, discrimination, and hatred.  Prejudice is based on stereotypes (assumptions about someone).  Prejudice then leads to discrimination and eventually to hate crimes.

Sexuality Peer Educators- practice ABCs of safer sex to prevent STIs and pregnancy:

                 -abstinence

                 -be faithful to monogamous partner

                 -wear condom

sexually transmitted infections- two types - viral and bacterial

                bacterial infections can be treated to cure but person still can get infection again with unprotected sex

                viral infections you have for life and cannot be treated or cured

                many STIs are asymptomatic- meaning that the person does not know they even have a STI and can transmit it to another parnter during unprotected sexual

                        activity.

Team Presentation #4- Dealing with Conflicts- roommates, teachers, etc

Team Presentation #5- Top 10 Things we learned this semester at UMD