Understanding vocabulary Choose the correct definition according to the context. 1. It opens up ethics and enables us to see through ideology. a. the study of moral issues b. the study of political problems c. the study of ideology d. the study of behavior 2. Or, critical thinking is thinking that analyzes thought, that assesses thought, and transforms thought for the better. a. accesses b. evaluates c. scrutinizes d. decomposes 3. There is a third way to talk about critical thinking overlapping and related to the other two. It ’s thinking about thinking while thinking in order to think better. a. covering in part b. transforming in a way c. differentiating from d. excluding to some extent 4. In other words, critical thinking, as I am conceiving it, transforms thinking in two directions. a. contending b. analyzing c. pretending d. conceptualizing 5. But, to the extent that they lock us in to one way of looking at the world, we need to transcend them. a. keep away from b. see through c. be aware of d. go beyond 6. Fear undermines thinking, fear drives us to the lowest levels of thought, fear makes us defensive. a. enhances b. destroys c. weakens d. prevents 7. We have created all kinds of levels of monitoring and testing and controlling and limiting and sanctioning, ordering, defining, our behavior and our thoughts. a. approving b. confusing c. framing d. confining 8. It ’s an orchestrated way of thinking that enables you to decompose your thinking at any moment. a. coordinated b. refined c. disorganizes d. sophisticated 9. It encompasses basic structures integrated together into a whole. a. organizes b. extends c. includes d. limits 10. And not only is the world a world of accelerated change, it ’s a world of intensifying complexity. a. retarding b. widening c. increasing d. Varying