According to Robert Ennis, a well-respected philosophy professor, critical thinking does not enable you to develop and defend your position on issues

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False

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The thesis statement of a speech

A) summarizes the essential message of the speech. B) describes the topic in general terms. C) indicates what listeners should learn or do. D) acts as a transition into the main points.

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Berscheid and Walster (1978) found that most people interpret close friends' attitudes as more congruent with their own than is actually true. This is an example of ________.

A. impression management B. cognitive mirroring C. dissonance self-perception D. None of the answers is correct.

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A proposition of fact is a statement designed to convince your audience that something is good, bad, desirable, undesirable, sound, beneficial, important, or unimportant

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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From a systems theory perspective, "ambiguous boundaries" refer to which of the following?

A. the "blurred" areas in which a family is unsure of how to divide its subsystems B. a lack of knowledge regarding the homeostasis of the family C. the uncertainty regarding the limitations associated with being a member of a subsystem within the family D. the uncertainty about who is and is not a part of the family system

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