TFY Chapter 4

1. You see a little girl pushing an elderly woman being push down Main Street in a large baby carriage.
Inference- You could see a little girl pushing an elderly woman but never see the girl pushing a woman in a carriage down the street.
2. Your best friend leaves you a note saying she has joined the Marines.
Inference- Perhaps your best friend needs a change from the life she is leading.
3. You have received no mail for the past two weeks.
Inference- Perhaps you moved to a different location and forgot to change your address.
4. A recent study found that men between fifty and seventy-nine years old married to woman one to twenty-four years younger tended to live longer or had a mortality rat 13 percent below the norm.
Inference- Maybe a woman help man by dieting and exercising.
5. The same study found men married to older women died sooner or had death rate that was 20 percent higher than the norm.
Inference- Men tend to eat a lot of unhealthy foods.
6. To state that "annual beef consumption in the U.S. is 96.8 pounds per capita in 1988, as compared to 11 pounds in China" is to make a generalization without facts.
False
7. To state the obvious is to opposed to what is thought or interpreted about what is seen.
True
8. Good thinking dose not continue to build inferences on top of inferences but stops whenever possible to cheek these inferences against the original facts or to find new ones.
True
9. One should always avoid making inferences in every kind of writing.
False
10. To state that the U.S. has that highest per capita use of motor vehicles in the world is to make a generalization without offering supporting facts.
True

CRCB Chapter 4 Remembering What You Read

TFY Chapter 3

1. Some facts can be determined by measurements.
True
2. Some facts can be confirmed by the senses, others by records.
False
3. The most reliable facts are those that have been repeatedly confirmed by test over time.
True
4. Facts often consist of obvious details that are seen but not consciously recognized.
True
5. Sometimes what we clam to be fact are untrue because the human perceptions used to determine them are limited and fallible.
True
6. A person educated in critical thinking qualifies statements to reflect probabilities such as it appears that...
True
7. Often it is hard to make a decision because we do not have enough facts.
True
8. The study of many subjects consists of memorizing facts.
True
9. All newspapers can be depended upon as reliable sources of facts about world events.
False
10. An atmosphere that permits disagreements about widely accepted perceptions and belief helps critical thinking to flourish.
True

CRCB Chapter 2 Developing Your College Vocabulary

TFY Chapter 2

1. Dictionaries are like phone books; basically, they all offer the same information. False
2. If a dictionary is named Webster's, that means it is one of the best. False
3. Exports who decide how we should speak English write dictionaries. False
4. Small, pocket dictionaries are the best kind to use for in-depth word study because they eliminate unnecessary, confusing information and make understanding easier. False
5. Since a dictionary can confuse us with so many definitions for any single word, it is better to try to figure out a word's meaning from its context or are someone else. False
6. Dictionaries are like cookbooks; a family needs to buy only one for the family's lifetime. False
7. Dictionaries gives us information about spelling and definitions, but that is about all they offer. False

CRCB Chapter 1 Reading in College

TFY Chapter 1

1. Observation skills are learned mainly through book learning. Support for Answers. On the contrary, observation is learned from participation, which is more active and spontaneous than reading. Samuel Scudder learned observing through the active coaching of his teacher Agassiz as well as from his own efforts, curiosity, and persistence in studying his fish.

False

2. The standard academic study of all the physical sciences requires observation skills, whether in the field or laboratory.

True

3. In thinking, the correctness of our conclusions usually depends on the clarity of our perceptions.

True

4. Observation skills can be extended to observing how you observe.

True

5. An insight is an experience of understanding that can occur spontaneously after we observe something intently for a while. One illustration of this experience is the story of Archimedes, who, while in his bath, discovered the means of measuring the value of an irregular solid by the displacement of water.

True

6. Agassiz was simply too busy to give his student all the assistance he needed.

False

7. Perception and sensation are synonyms.

False

8. It is difficult to feel sensation and to think at the same time. If we want to feel whether a pair of new shoes fits properly, we have to pay attention.

True

9. Assimilation, according to Piaget, is an experience of easily understanding something that readily fits into our preexisting schemes or world view.

True

10. The word thinking, according to the dictionary, has only one meaning.

False

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