Sequential Problem Solving A Student Handbook with Checklists for Successful Critical Thinking — Fredric B. Lozo
You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org . If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. *** This is a COPYRIGHTED Project Gutenberg eBook. Details Below. *** *** Please follow the copyright guidelines in this file. *** Title : Sequential Problem Solving Author : Fredric B. Lozo Release date : August 19, 2005 [eBook #16547] Most recently updated: December 12, 2020 Language : English Other information and formats : www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16547 Credits : E-text prepared by Frederic Lozo *** START OF B. Lozo Introductory Note: Sequential Problem Solving is written for those with a whole brain thinking style. It is for those who seek to validate the propriety of when and under what circumstances they utilize each aspect of their intellect. Sequential Problem Solving helps those with a logical nature to develop creative right brain intuitive processes in a way that can be efficiently utilized by the orderly left brain to develop new solutions to both old and everyday problems. Included are basic study skills for high school and college students. Sequential Problem Solving: A STUDENT HANDBOOK With Checklists for Successful Critical Thinking by Fredric B. Lozo Mathis, Texas Copyright 1998 F.B. Lozo ISBN 0-9674166-2-0 TABLE OF CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION Problem solving checklist flowchart. RESEARCH SKILLS Rapid Reading Memorization PRACTICAL PROBLEM SOLVING Learning Stream Of Consciousness PROBLEM SOLVING STEPS Problem Identification as the first step of problem solving Fact Gathering in problem solving Logic Fallacies Emotional Fallacies Credibility Fallacies Fact And Opinion Deductive Reasoning Developing a Solution Time Material Manpower Trying the Solution Manpower Management Leadership Styles Dealing With Interpersonal Conflict INTERPERSONAL PROBLEM SOLVING External Conflicts Internal Conflicts Steps of Moral Decision Making Dealing with the "Unattached" Person Interpersonal relationships—Values PROBLEM SOLVING EVASIONS APPENDIX 1—OUTLINE STYLES APPENDIX 2—PERSUASIVE ARGUMENT FORM APPENDIX 3—ARGUMENTATIVE FALLACIES REFERENCES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX INTRODUCTION We are constantly trying to make some sense of our world and the way people treat each other. The purpose of this book is to provide a systematic way of analyzing situations and planning actions. Sequential Problem Solving is written for those who want to reassure themselves that their thinking is logically correct rather than emotionally or impulsively misguided. It provides step by step procedures for applying computer-like decision making to daily living. Many ordinary problems involve not only physical, concrete parts but also interpersonal elements. Thus problem solving involves both the physical world and the interpersonal world. For instance, when solutions to physical problems are implemented, the job manager must decide which of several leadership-managerial styles is appropriate. Are the workers mature enough and knowledgeable enough to work together as a team without supervision, or are the workers so immature and unruly that an authoritarian task master leadership style will be required, or will the workers need a teacher-leader for some period of time before they become a team? The underlying principle, throughout Sequential Problem Solving, is an obligation to help each other as citizens of a world community, and an acknowledgement that our real enemy is often ourselves. Our common problem is understanding ourselves in order to be a friend to others. Sequential Problem Solving provides us with a way of checking for the kindness factor in problem solving, with the goal of helping others and being a good citizen in the world community. A separate section, Dealing with Unattached People, is devoted to the problem of neighbors in the world community who are untrustworthy for some period of time, from the view point that today's enemies are tomorrow's friends. Some neighbors in the world community are, from time to time, untrustworthy. Since opportunities for misunderstanding are greater in a climate of mistrust, later sections are included that deal with mistrust and ways that we can gauge interpersonal situations and select an appropriate leadership style to match it. Sequential Problem Solving begins with the mechanics of learning and the role of memorization in learning. The techniques of effective memorization follow, as well as other important learning skills. This book contains many step by step checklists, much like pilots use to make certain that things of importance are not overlooked. These individual checklists are tied together in a broad flowchart that provides a sequential decision making pathway. The contents of the checklists are things that many adults utilize instinctively, without conscious thought. However these checklist can provide adults with a more positive way of checking their own thinking, in times of stress, and a way for students to become instinctive users of sound logic practices. Teachers may find that students instantaneously begin to act more mature because of the realization that their peers have a common body of knowledge about values and character traits and checklists to evaluate the behavior of others. For teachers, the sequence of presentation here can be readily altered to suit the teachable moment, that moment when a unique, high interest situation arises that lends itself to discussion of a particular topic. The sequence presented here is merely one way in which the various interlocking subjects can be presented. This presentation is intentionally concise to provide the reader with a composite picture of the use of checklists in logical thinking, without burdening the reader with statistical findings or repetitious historical background information. The ideas presented here are referenced to