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| Keys to Successful Learning |
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| Take Notes, Study, Practice |
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| Receiving (Affective Domain Levels of Learning) |
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| Learners pay attention and actively receive. They display awareness and willingness to receive. |
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| Responding (Affective Domain Levels of Learning) |
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| Involves some sort of action or response, such as complying with an Air Force directive or performing some voluntary action and obtaining satisfaction from it. |
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| Valuing (Affective Domain Levels of Learning) |
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| The internalization of a set of specified values, while clues to these values are expressed in the learner's overt behavior and are often identifiable. |
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| Knowledge (Cognitive Levels of Learning) |
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| Keep, remember, recall, label, recognize, and repeat information you have read. |
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| Comprehension (Cognitive Levels of Learning) |
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1. Translation
2. Interpretation
3. Extrapolation |
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| Application (Cognitive Levels of Learning) |
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| Identify lesson concepts from among other lesson concepts in simulated situations. |
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| Open-Minded and Skeptical (Characteristics that embody a proficient critical thinker) |
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| Seeking out the facts, information sources, and reasoning to support issues we intend to judge; examining issues from as many sides as possible; rationally looking for the good and bad points of the various sides examined; accepting the fact that we may be in error ourselves; and maintaining the goal of getting at the truth (or close to the truth) |
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| Intellectual Humility (Characteristics that embody a proficient critical thinker)) |
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| Adhering tentatively to recently acquired opinions; being prepared to examine new evidence and argument even if such examination leads one to discover flaws in one's own cherished beliefs. |
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| Free Thinker (Characteristics that embody a proficient critical thinker) |
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| Restrain one's desire to believe because of social pressures to conform. |
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| Highly Motivated (Characteristics that embody a proficient critical thinker) |
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| Put in the necessary work sufficient to evaluate the multiple sides of issues. |
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| Credible (Approaches for Evaluating Information) |
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| Information that is believable, from a trustworthy source (experts in a particular field, subject matter experts, Air Force leardership, etc. |
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| Unbiased (Approaches for Evaluating Information) |
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| Information that is fair, impartial rather than prejudiced. |
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| Accurate (Approaches for Evaluating Information) |
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| Information that is free from error, a correct or truthful representation of something. |
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| Problem solving, deliberate decision-making |
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| Confirmation Bias and Selective Thinking (Basic Human Limitations) |
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| One tends to notice and look for what confirms one's beliefs, and to ignore, not look for, or undervalue what contradicts one's beliefs |
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| False Memories and Confabulation (Basic Human Limitations) |
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| Being unaware that your memories are often "manufactured" to fill in the gaps in our recollection, or that some memories of facts, over time, can be unconsciously replaced with fantasy. |
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| Personal Biases and Prejudices (Basic Human Limitations) |
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| Result from our own unique life experiences and worldview, which makes it difficult to remain objective and think critically. |
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| Physical and Emotional Hindrances (Basic Human Limitations) |
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| These include stress, fatigue, drugs, and related hindrances. |
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| Testimonial Evidence (Basic Human Limitations) |
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| We should not rely on the testimonies and vivid stories of others to substantiate one's own beliefs, even though testimonies are inherently subjective, inaccurate, unreliable, biased, and occasional fraudulent. |
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| Ambiguity (Use of Language) |
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| A word or expression that can be understood in more than one way. |
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| Assuring Expression (Use of Language) |
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| Expressions that disarm you from questioning the validity of an argument |
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| Meaningless Comparisons (Use of Language) |
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| Include language that implies something is superior but retreats from that view. |
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| Doublespeak Jargon (Use of Language) |
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| This is the use of technical language to make the simple seem complex, the trivial seem profound, or the insignificant seem important. |
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| Emotive Content (Use of Language) |
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| The intentional use of words to arouse feelings about a subject to bias others positively or negatively, in order to gain influence or power. |
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| False Implications (Use of Language) |
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| This is the use of language that is clear and accurate bus misleading because it suggests something false. |
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