Sentence examples for superficial thinking from inspiring English sources

He believed index learning led to superficial thinking.

As they were not shown a drawing of the problem, more students fell into this superficial thinking, confirming the theory of 'prevailing misconceptions' (McDermott 1984).

Yorck remarks that "only an abstract and superficial thinking" construes the feeling of mortality as the result of a "probabilistic inference" (ST, 90).

Many students confused the concept of speed as a quotient applying a superficial thinking of time canceling out over the same distance, rather than thinking about different times needed for the two laps of the journey.

This misconception seems not to be eliminated by school instruction, because of the strength and ease of superficial thinking as opposed to the task of applying scientific concepts (McDermott 1991).

Thirdly, the critical thinking subscale could alert the students to the need to conduct higher order cognitive activities and may reduce superficial thinking.

Far from being a superficial exercise, thinking about values forces an organisation to confront deep questions about its very existence.

He said he was not "superficial and thinking deeply and long term".

Even when I wrote them I was thinking, I think this is superficial.

The answers reflect a superficial way of thinking (called 'p-prim' by diSessa 1993, diSessa and Sherin 1998) avoiding the complications of dividing distance into time to get speed.

On the other hand, it further encourages superficial, distracted thinking, and I personally hope to continue to shun it.