Using the concepts learned through the readings and lecture pages, write a critical analysis essay that answers at least three of the following prompts or questions:How might you employ critical thinking as a tool to further your career aspirations? (I have attached a copy of my introduction post to the class which talks about my background. It should help with answering this question).Describe the differences between inert information, assumptions, and inferences. Describe an assumption that you have made in the past that had important consequence.Where do you see yourself using activated ignorance to think about issues? What steps could you take to move towards activated knowledge on this issue?What is the difference between activated ignorance and activated knowledge? Where do you have difficulties “thinking for yourself”? Why does critical thinking demand high levels of intellectual autonomy?Why are concepts, theories, and ideas central to good critical reasoning?Requirements:Cite all claims and ideas using scholarly sources. While it is acceptable to write in the first person, be sure to cite your sources to support your inferences. To understand how to construct your thoughts you can view these short clips on informal and formal writing.Peter Elbow: On Writing (see attached)Writing for Life: page 17Writing Across the Curriculum: Forgetting formality: page 14Writing Across the Curriculum Revising for Formality: page 15Include at least three scholarly sources that are not part of the required or recommended reading for this course.Your paper should be four to five pages in length and formatted according to the APA guidelines. Papers should be double-spaced, 12-point font Times New Roman. Include the following in your essay: a brief introduction, a conclusion, and a reference page formatted according to the APA requirements.

t is instructive to consult the Master Teacher when we are considering “teaching and learning.”To be sure, Jesus in His humanity did not know about Bloom’s Taxonomy nor the upgrade by Anderson and Krathwohl, so He did not think about getting his audience to evaluate, or analyze, or apply following the terms we use. Nor did he use active learning strategies—no think/pair/share in the Sermon on the Mount.However, if you look carefully at what Jesus did, you see that he often challenged thinking including challenging presuppositions, and correcting the illogic of the Pharisees. So, while he imparted a lot of information, he also used phrases like “You have heard. . . but I tell you this.” His audience had to consider that the Old Testament laws on divorce really did not get to the heart of the matter. Jesus offered that correction in his challenge to think about God’s original intent for a husband and wife to stay together as “one flesh” and that only men and women’s hardness of heart led to God’s concession in allowing divorce. The same challenge of thinking applied to misconceptions about hatred (tantamount to “murder”), and many other legalistic presuppositions. His use of parables also challenged thinking and was actually a learning technique that led to personal application.InstructionsFor this discussion board assignment, we want to explore Jesus’ teaching through the lens of the teaching taxonomies we have explored this term (Bloom and Anderson and Krathwohl’s revision of Bloom).Review Jesus’ major teaching discourses, such as the Sermon on the MountReview Jesus’ use of parables and story tellingJesus’ engagement with the Pharisees and those who opposed himJesus’ engagement with those who sought himAll the Gospels contain great demonstrations of Jesus’ teaching but you could review in particular Jesus’ teaching in the book of John.Your task in this discussion board post is to identify how Jesus demonstrated HOTS in his teaching. Pick out several examples from Jesus teaching that illustrate at least three of the higher levels of thought from Bloom/Anderson and Krathwohl. Explain the link and suggest why those examples showed how Jesus challenged thinking.Then think of the active learning strategies we have reviewed this term. While you will not find examples of many of the active learning strategies mentioned in our texts, can you identify some elements of active learning in Jesus’ teaching?Replies: Provide a critique as we have done in previous discussion board exercises. What did your classmate provided that was truly unique or insightful? Why? What suggestions would you have for your classmate that would make their comments more complete?

QUESTION 1Donald Broadbent, one of the first psychologists to use a flow-chart model, used that approach to develop a model of:a.Language acquisition.b.Long-term memory.c.Selective attention.d.Artificial intelligence.5 points QUESTION 2The statement that “the whole is different from the sum of its parts” is associated with which school of psychology?a.Behaviorism.b.Psychoanalysis.c.Gestalt psychology.d.Functionalism.5 points QUESTION 3Which one of the following characterizes Gestalt psychology?a.Wholism and nativism.b.A focus on S-R connections.c.Processing experience at a molecular level.d.Environmentalism and reductionism.5 points QUESTION 4George Miller is best known for an article he wrote that defined the capacity for short-term memory (also called working memory). According to Miller that capacity is:a.Variable, depending on a person’s verbal intelligence.b.Unlimited.c.Variable, depending on how much practice a person has with memory improvement techniques.d.Seven, plus or minus two.5 points QUESTION 5A phenomenological approach to psychology means that:a.Environmental factors are emphasized.b.Unconscious factors play a large role in determining behavior.c.Explanations are likely to draw from nativistic causes.d.Experience is studied just as it occurs.5 points QUESTION 6The Gestalt psychologists proposed the existence of innate cognitive structures that they called:a.Phi formations.b.Organizing tendenciesc.Insight templates.d.Deep processors.5 points QUESTION 7In Köhler’s chimp studies, he believed that successful problem solving was the result of the chimp:a.Being so desperately hungry that it had to solve the problem in order to eat.b.Seeing the problem as a whole.c.Seeing another chimp solve the problem.d.Engaging in a number of trial and error attempts before getting the correct solution.5 points QUESTION 8The Zeigarnik effect refers to the fact that:a.Similar items are usually grouped together.b.Wholes are more easily introspected than parts.c.Items at the end of a list are best recalled.d.Uncompleted tasks are better remembered.5 points QUESTION 9The demonstration of apparent movement that is regarded as the birth of Gestalt psychology was about:a.The spiral aftereffect.b.The phi phenomenon.c.The autokinetic effect.d.Induced motion.5 points QUESTION 10Many of psychology’s earliest pioneers, such as Wilhelm Wundt, William James, Hermann Ebbinghaus, and Edward Titchener, could all be described as cognitive psychologists. But their brand of psychology mostly disappeared in America for a 50-year period because: a.Of the influence of Darwinian ideas that emphasized a focus on learning.b.They were too closely tied to philosophical questions.c.Their research methods were found to be inaccurate.d.Their ideas were too closely aligned with the psychoanalytic theory.5 points QUESTION 11Noting how rapidly a first language is learned and the way in which language is learned across nationalities, Chomsky posited the existence of a language acquisition device, which he said:a.Developed in the first year of an infant’s life.b.Was structured differently for different languages.c.Was innate.d.Operated by rewards and punishers in language learning.5 points QUESTION 12Which of the following statements about cognitive psychology is true?a.It is the largest of the areas of experimental psychology.b.It focuses primarily on observable behaviors and does not purport to study mental processes.c.It has largely eliminated behaviorism from American psychology.d.Its primary emphasis is on the neurological underpinnings of cognitive behavior.5 points QUESTION 13Being able to explain linear sequences, such as how words are ordered in a sentence, was what Karl Lashley referred to as the problem of:a.Syntax.b.Categorization.c.Serial order.d.Linguistic form.5 points QUESTION 14The rebirth of American cognitive psychology in the 1950s was due principally to:a.The recognition that the psychology of behaviorism was too limiting.b.Realization that the subjects studied by the behaviorists were of little importance in understanding human functioning.c.An infusion of ideas from France and Germany.d.The invention of the computer and the new research methods it afforded.5 points QUESTION 15Which of the following comprises the field of cognitive psychology?a.Study of the relationships between mind and brain.b.Study of such processes as thinking, memory, and perception.c.Study of the unconscious processes that can account for behavior.d.Study of the physiological and endocrinological influences on behavior.5 points QUESTION 16Ulric Neisser's 1967 book on cognitive psychology:a.Criticized modern cognitive psychology for its failure to develop methods that were truly scientific.b.Invented the concept of schema, a critical development for the field.c.Called for a strictly behavioristic approach to the study of cognitions.d.Is said to have given the field of cognitive psychology its name.5 points QUESTION 17Cognitive frameworks that organize past experiences related to particular concepts are called:a.Templates.b.Schema.c.Constructions.d.Patterns.5 points QUESTION 18Frederic Bartlett’s research using the story of The War of the Ghosts convinced him that:a.Memory involved construction, not just reconstruction.b.Cultural factors were the major determinants in perception.c.Cognitive factors were key to the utility of intelligence.d.Learning rarely occurred in the absence of reinforcement.5 points QUESTION 19Allen Newell and Herbert Simon are important in the history of cognitive psychology because of their pioneering development of the field known as:a.Transformational grammar.b.Heuristics.c.Ecological memory.d.Artificial intelligence.5 points QUESTION 20Noam Chomsky’s research on surface and deep structures in sentences was critical for his development of:a.Psycholinguistics.b.Transformational grammar.c.Artificial intelligence.d.Syntax.