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PHL 251 Week 1 DQ 1 (UOP Course)
PHL 251 Entire Course (UOP Course)
PHL 251 Week 1 Individual Assignment Nature of
Thought Paper (UOP Course) PHL 251 Week 1 DQ 1
(UOP Course) PHL 251 Week 1 DQ 2 (UOP Course) PHL
251 Week 2 Individual Assignment Creative
Thinking Paper (UOP Course) PHL 251 Week 2 DQ 1
(UOP Course) PHL 251 Week 2 DQ 2 (UOP Course) PHL
251 Week 3 Individual Assignment Logical Thinking
Worksheet (UOP Course) PHL 251 Week 3 DQ 1 (UOP
Course) PHL 251 Week 3 DQ 2 (UOP Course)
  Post a 150- to 200-word response to the
following discussion question by clicking on
Reply What happens if a person gets stuck at a
certain level of thought? o Feral children o
Einstein o Brain injury victims  o Others  
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PHL 251 Week 1 Individual Assignment Nature of
Thought Paper (UOP Course)
PHL 251 Week 1 DQ 2 (UOP Course)
  PHL 251 Week 1 Individual Assignment Nature of
Thought PaperRead the materials listed on the
Student Web site for Week One.Nature of Thought
Paper Resources Ch. 1-6 13 of Thinking. Write
a 700- 1,050-word paper explaining the nature of
thought. Outline your own perceptual process and
describe the types of perceptual blocks that
influence your views. Explain thought processes
and how they are changed or manipulated by
perception.
  Post a 150- to 200-word response to the
following discussion question by clicking on
Reply List different ways in which thinking
influences your life. Begin with what can be done
without thought and move through a hierarchy of
basic to complex uses of thoughts. o Start with
basic functions, such as breathing. o Explore
thinking in terms of wants versus needs. o
Discuss the higher orders of thought like
applications of concepts and theories to
real-world situations. 
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PHL 251 Week 2 DQ 2 (UOP Course)
PHL 251 Week 2 DQ 1 (UOP Course)
Post a 150- to 200-word response to the following
discussion question by clicking on Reply How can
a metaphor affect a persons emotions? Explain
how the language used influences the
interpretation of the metaphor. 
  Post a 150- to 200-word response to the
following discussion question by clicking on
Reply What are the processes we use to organize
information? What are natural orders?  What are
mental orders? Is there a connection between the
two different ordering processes? Why or why not?
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PHL 251 Week 3 DQ 1 (UOP Course)
PHL 251 Week 2 Individual Assignment Creative
Thinking Paper (UOP Course)
  Post a 150- to 200-word response to the
following discussion question by clicking on
Reply What is the basic structure of an argument
in the context of critical thinking? How can you
identify the parts or elements of an argument?
  Resources Creative Thinking and Natural/Mental
Orders Worksheet, found on your student Web site
Activity 7.1, located in Ch. 7 of Thinking, for
examples on how to create metaphors and Ch. 8 of
Thinking  Construct as many metaphors as you can
about five different things that describe any
aspect of your life, such as someone you know,
something you do, someplace you have been, or
anything else. Include a minimum of four
metaphors for each person, subject, or
object.  Organize one set of information using
natural ordering and a different set of
information using mental orders in the second
portion of the worksheet.
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PHL 251 Week 3 Individual Assignment Logical
Thinking Worksheet (UOP Course)
PHL 251 Week 3 DQ 2 (UOP Course)
  Post a 150- to 200-word response to the
following discussion question by clicking on
Reply What are the elements of a syllogism? What
role does a syllogism play in persuasion? Explain
the difference between truth and validity in a
syllogism. How can a syllogism be valid even if
it is not true?
  PHL 251 Week 3 Individual Assignment Logical
Thinking Worksheet  Logical Thinking
Worksheet Use the following questions to guide
you through your exploration of logical thinking
and arguments. Answer the questions as completely
as possible, and provide examples where
needed.  1.     What is a logical
argument? 2.     When and how do we use
them? 3.     What parts do they contain? 
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PHL 251 Week 4 DQ 2 (UOP Course)
PHL 251 Week 4 DQ 1 (UOP Course)
  Post a 150- to 200-word response to the
following discussion question by clicking on
Reply What role does critical thinking play in
decision making?  
  Post a 150- to 200-word response to the
following discussion question by clicking on
Reply During a persuasive argument, how can the
needs and concerns of the audience be met while
still meeting the objective of the argument?
Provide at least one example.
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PHL 251 Week 4 Team Assignment Evaluate Creative
Thinking (UOP Course)
PHL 251 Week 4 Individual Assignment Applying
Problem Solving Paper (UOP Course)
  Resources Ch. 1012 of the text, personal
experiences  Choose two different real-world
problems you have encountered. The problems
should be chosen with the intention of applying
persuasive thinking as a solution to one and
scientific thinking as a solution to the
other.  Applying Problem Solving Write a 700- to
1,050-word paper in which you provide the
following  A description of each of the problem
situations An explanation of using persuasive
thinking to solve the first problem An
explanation of using scientific thinking to solve
the second problem
Resources Individual assignments from Week Two
and Ch. 13 of Thinking Write a combined paper
from the individual team member notes of week 3
(total word count should be no more than 500
words for the entire paper) in which you evaluate
your team members metaphors according to the
criteria listed in Week Three Learning Team
Instructions. o   Refer to the questions in Ch.
13 Testing Against our Thinking Bases, in
order to understand these terms and complete this
assignment.
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PHL 251 Week 5 DQ 2 (UOP Course)
PHL 251 Week 5 DQ 1 (UOP Course)
  Post a 150- to 200-word response to the
following discussion question by clicking on
Reply Provide an example of a simple decision
you recently made. What were the elements of the
decision? What decision-making process did you
use?  
  Post a 150- to 200-word response to the
following discussion question by clicking on
Reply What are some factors that can be used to
measure the effectiveness of a solution obtained
through the decision-making process?  
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PHL 251 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Problem
Solving and Action Presentation (UOP Course)
  Resources Ch. 4, 5, 10, 13, 14, 15
of Thinking Ch. 10 of Critical Thinking and the
Problem Solving and Action Example located on the
student Web site  Prepare a 10- to 15-slide
PowerPoint presentation with speaker notes in
the note section of the slides according to the
following criteria  o   A description of the
problem situation o   A problem-solving
technique  Identification of the
technique Explanation of why the chosen technique
works best for the problem  
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