Book

Reasoning skills for law enforcement exams.

1st ed.

New York, NY : LearningExpress, ©2010.

xi, 180 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Synopsis: Critical Thinking for Law Enforcement Exams provides law enforcement candidates the vital problem-solving skills they need to ace various exams including the Police Officer Exam, Border Patrol Exam, State Police Exam, and Probation/Parole Officer Exam. This book sharpens the logical reasoning and deductive skills needed on multiple-choice questions. With this title, you will solve problems logically, from brainstorming to following through with a sensible solution. It also includes additional online instantly-scored practice questions with detailed answers and explanations.

Law enforcement -- Examinations -- Study guides.

Reasoning.

Problem solving.

Study guides.

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LearningExpress complete test preparation. Reasoning skills for law enforcement exams

Learning Express complete test preparation. Reasoning skills for law enforcement exams

Complete test preparation. Reasoning skills for law enforcement exams

"Essential for police, border patrol, homeland security, state trooper, and other exam success!"--Cover.

How to use this book -- Lesson 1: Critical thinking and reasoning skills -- Lesson 2: Problem-solving strategies -- Lesson 3: Thinking versus knowing -- Lesson 4: Who make the claim? -- Lesson 5: Partial claims and half-truths -- Lesson 6: What's in a word? -- Lesson 7: Working with arguments -- Lesson 8: Evaluating evidence -- Lesson 9: Recognizing a good argument -- Lesson 10: Putting it all together -- Lesson 11: Logical fallacies: appeals to emotion -- Lesson 12: Logical fallacies: the impostors -- Lesson 13: Logical fallacies: Distracters and distorters -- Lesson 14: Making judgment calls -- Lesson 15: Why did it happen? -- Lesson 16: Inductive reasoning -- Lesson 17: Jumping to conclusions -- Lesson 18: More inductive reasoning -- Lesson 19: Number never lie -- Lesson 20: Problem solving revisited -- Lesson 21: Putting it all together -- Lesson 22: Critical think/logical reasoning and law enforcement exams -- Appendix: How to prepare for a test.

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