Pearson Guide to Critical and Creative Thinking, The, 1st edition

Published by Pearson (July 14, 2021) © 2015

  • Robert J. DiYanni Pace University

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ISBN-13: 9780137562817 (2021 update)
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The Pearson Guide to Critical and Creative Thinking provides you with the tools, techniques and strategies for thinking both critically and creatively. A clear writing style makes concepts and theories accessible. The author encourages practice applying learned theories to examples, demonstrations and exercises.

In This Section:

  1. Brief Table of Contents
  2. Detailed Table of Contents

I) Brief Table of Contents

PART ONE - INTRODUCING CRITICAL AND CREATIVE THINKING

  • Chapter 1. Developing Critical Thinking
  • Chapter 2. Developing Creative Thinking

PART TWO - CRITICAL THINKING: ANALYSIS

  • Chapter 3. Analyzing Language
  • Chapter 4. Analyzing Images
  • Chapter 5. Thinking, Reading, Writing

PART THREE - CRITICAL THINKING: ARGUMENT

  • Chapter 6. Reasoning Well: Sound Thinking
  • Chapter 7. Reasoning Badly: Thinking Fallacies
  • Chapter 8. Analyzing and Constructing Arguments

PART FOUR - CREATIVE THINKING: GENERATING IDEAS

  • Chapter 9. Parallel Thinking and Lateral Thinking
  • Chapter 10. Finding Ideas Through Imaginative Thinking
  • Chapter 11. Creative Whacks and Thinkertoys

PART FIVE - CREATIVE THINKING: APPLICATIONS AND EXPLORATIONS

  • Chapter 12. Thinking about Design
  • Chapter 13. Thinking about Innovation
  • Chapter 14. Thinking about Technology and Information

II) Detailed Table of Contents

PART ONE - INTRODUCING CRITICAL AND CREATIVE THINKING

  • Chapter 1. Developing Critical Thinking
    • Learning Goals
    • Chapter Overview
    • Focusing Questions
    • What is Critical Thinking?
    • Habits of Mind
    • Overcoming Obstacles to Thinking
    • A Model for Critical Thinking
    • Thinking about Thinking: How We Know What We Know
    • Focus on Perception: Perception and Knowledge
    • Being Wrong
    • Intuitions and Rationalizations
    • The Pleasures and Benefits of Error
    • The Perspective of Philosophy
    • Looking Back and Looking Ahead
    • Resources
  • Chapter 2. Developing Creative Thinking
    • Learning Goals
    • Chapter Overview
    • Focusing Questions
    • What is Creative Thinking?
    • Seeking Alternatives and Possibilities
    • Broadening Perception
    • Reversing Relationships
    • Cross-Fertilization
    • Shifting Attention
    • Denying the Negative, Pursuing the Possible
    • The Eight Commandments of Ideation
    • SCAMPER
    • The Creative Habit
    • Developing Creative Confidence
    • Idea Killers and Idea Growers
    • Creative Questioning
    • Looking Back and Looking Ahead
    • Resources

PART TWO - CRITICAL THINKING: ANALYSIS

  • Chapter 3. Analyzing Language
    • Learning Goals
    • Chapter Overview
    • Focusing Questions
    • Language Saturation
    • Words
    • The Prevalence of Metaphor
    • Language and Thought
    • Reports, Inferences, and Judgments
    • Language and Critical Analysis
    • An Approach to Analysis
    • Looking Back and Looking Ahead
    • Resources
  • Chapter 4. Analyzing Images
    • Learning Goals
    • Chapter Overview
    • Focusing Questions
    • The Prevalence and Power of Images
    • Image, Icon, Symbol, Sign
    • The Vocabulary of Comics
    • Images with Words: Analyzing an Advertisement
    • Observations and Analysis: Allen Edmonds Shoe Ad
    • Images, Ideas and Emotion
    • Comparing Representational and Abstract Images
    • A Graphic Novel: Shaun Tan's The Arrival
    • Two Powerful Images
    • Moving Images: The Power of Movies
    • The Attraction of Movies
    • Looking Back and Looking Ahead
    • Resources
  • Chapter 5. Thinking, Reading, Writing
    • Learning Goals
    • Chapter Overview
    • Focusing Questions
    • Why Read?
    • The Pleasures of Reading
    • Kinds of Reading
    • Why Write?
    • The Pleasures of Writing
    • Kinds of Writing
    • Active Reading
    • The Interpretive Impulse
    • An Approach to Reading and Writing
    • Summarizing and Paraphrasing
    • Evaluation—Judging and Considering Values
    • Writing to Evaluate a Text
    • The Value of Reading
    • Digital Reading
    • Looking Back and Looking Ahead
    • Resources

PART THREE - CRITICAL THINKING: ARGUMENT

  • Chapter 6. Reasoning Well: Sound Thinking
    • Learning Goals
    • Chapter Overview
    • Focusing Questions
    • The Pervasiveness of Argument
    • What is an Argument?
    • Argument Basics: Claims, Evidence, Assumptions
    • Argument and Implications
    • Going Further Into Evidence: Claims, Warrants, Backing
    • Inductive and Deductive Reasoning
    • Syllogisms and Argument
    • Argument and Authority
    • Argument and Analogy
    • Argument and Causality
    • Looking Back and Looking Ahead
    • Resources
  • Chapter 7. Reasoning Badly: Thinking Fallacies
    • Learning Goals
    • Chapter Overview
    • Focusing Questions
    • How Thinking Goes Wrong
    • Fallacies—Errors in Reasoning
    • Looking Back and Looking Ahead
    • Resources
  • Chapter 8. Analyzing and Constructing Arguments
    • Learning Goals
    • Chapter Overview
    • Focusing Questions
    • Analyzing Arguments
    • Logic and Rhetoric
    • Logos, Ethos, Pathos
    • Argument and Eloquence—“Letter from Birmingham Jail”
    • Constructing Arguments
    • Guidelines for Constructing an Argument
    • Argument and the Classical Oration
    • Rogerian Argument
    • Cultural Relativism
    • Looking Back and Looking Ahead
    • Resources

PART FOUR - CREATIVE THINKING: GENERATING IDEAS

  • Chapter 9. Parallel Thinking and Lateral Thinking
    • Learning Goals
    • Chapter Overview
    • Focusing Questions
    • Thinking Tools
    • Six Thinking Hats
    • Lateral Thinking
    • Concepts
    • Essences
    • Concepts as Cognitive Tools
    • Looking Back and Looking Ahead
    • Resources
  • Chapter 10. Finding Ideas Through Imaginative Thinking
    • Learning Goals
    • Chapter Overview
    • Focusing Questions
    • The Priority of Imagination
    • Imagination First: Unlocking Possibility
    • Why Imagination?
    • Imagination, Creativity, Innovation
    • Capacities for Imaginative Thinking
    • Raising Your Imagination Quotient
    • The Limits of Imagination
    • What is an Idea?
    • Why Ideas are Important
    • How to Get Ideas
    • Creation and Destruction
    • Looking Back and Looking Ahead
    • Resources
  • Chapter 11. Creative Whacks and Thinkertoys
    • Learning Goals
    • Chapter Overview
    • Focusing Questions
    • Creative Whacks
    • Explorer, Artist, Judge, Warrior
    • Thinkertoys
    • Using Paradox
    • Combining Things
    • Thinking the Unthinkable
    • Walt Disney—Dreamer, Realist, Critic
    • Looking Back and Looking Ahead
    • Resources

PART FIVE - CREATIVE THINKING: APPLICATIONS AND EXPLORATIONS

  • Chapter 12. Thinking about Design
    • Learning Goals
    • Chapter Overview
    • Focusing Questions
    • What We Talk About When We Talk About Design
    • Design and Everyday Life
    • The Design of Processes
    • Good and Bad Design
    • Levels of Design
    • Design and Human Behavior
    • Designing for Error
    • Paradoxes of Design
    • Principles of Design
    • Design Constraints and Compromises
    • Anti-Design
    • Design Thinking
    • Design, Art, and Society
    • Design and Truth
    • Looking Back and Looking Ahead
    • Resources
  • Chapter 13. Thinking about Innovation
    • Learning Goals
    • Chapter Overview
    • Focusing Questions
    • What is Innovation?
    • Principles of Innovation
    • Conditions of Innovation
    • Innovation and Resonance
    • Innovation Myths and Innovation Drivers
    • Inadvertent Discoveries
    • Achieving Insights
    • Group and Solo Innovation
    • Where Good Ideas Come From
    • Creating Innovators
    • Zig-Zag Innovation
    • Social Innovation
    • What Thwarts Innovation?
    • Balancing Innovation Factors
    • Looking Back and Looking Ahead
    • Resources
  • Chapter 14. Thinking about Technology and Information
    • Learning Goals
    • Chapter Overview
    • Focusing Questions
    • The Power and Promise of Technology
    • The Internet and Responsibility
    • Into the Electronic Millennium
    • Technology Education
    • Technopoly
    • Technology and Ethics
    • Social Networking
    • Does Facebook Reduce Life to a Data Base?
    • The Implications of Artificial Intelligence
    • Technology and Our Brains
    • Digital Citizenship
    • Technology and Information
    • The River of Knowledge
    • The Trustworthiness of Information
    • Big Data
    • Information, Privacy, and Political Control
    • Information, Meaning, and Knowledge
    • Looking Back and Looking Ahead
    • Resources

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