TFY-CHAPTER 1 Summary and QUIZ

1.First observe our own thinking processes so we can recognize our strengths and weaknesses.
2.Help us see details and new knowledge.
3.observation is process of sensing ,perceiving ,and thinking .
4.Requirese to stay awake,take our time ,give full attention ,and suspend thinking in an attitude of listening .
5.Skills are self-understanding ,creativty,rapture,power ,and wonde.



TFY--CHAPTER 1 QUIZ P39
1.Observation skills are learned mainly through book learing.support for answer:on the contrary,observation is leaned form participation,which is more active and spontanecous than reading.samuel scudder learned observing though the active coaching of his teacher agassiz as well as from his own efforts, curiosity,and persistence in studying his fish.-------false 2.the standard academic study of all the physical sciences requires observation skills,whether in the field or laboratory----ture 3.in thinking,the correctness of our conclusions usually depends on the clearity of our perceptions.----false 4.observation skills can be extended to observing how you observe.-----ture 5.an insight is an experience of understanding that can occur spontaneously affter we observe something intently for a while.one illustration of this experience is the story of archimedes,who,while in his bath,discovered the means of meaning the volume of an irregular solid by the displacement of water.---false 6.agassiz was simply too busy to give his student all the assistance he needed.----ture 7.perception and sensation are synonyms.---ture 8.it is difficult to feel sensation and to think at the same time.if we want to feel whether a pair of new shose fits properly,we have to pay attention----ture 9.assimilation,according to piaget,is an experience of easily understanding something that reading fits into our preexisting schemes or worldview.---false 10.the word thinking,according to the dictionary,has only one meaing .----ture