Critical Thinking Paper

Critical Thinking
Wynoka Casteel
PHL/251
Candice Shehorn
July 24, 2010

The thought process, thinking, memory and sensing process I use for the medical office I work for when facing a situation. This paper will also describe some of the perceptual blocks that influence my views and how I respond to certain situations. In order to make effective and wise decision is to assume that the nature of thought can offer. It is very important and vital to understand the meaning of nature of thought, meaning having character or qualities of thought, according to dictionary.com. We may not realize that everyone uses thinking process in their daily lives. Within this thinking process are also used in order to make the best decision or choice.
As we all may have our own thinking processes due to past experiences the results may vary. The thinking process plays an important part when we make decisions in our lives, careers, or for our families. Thinking process is very helpful and everyone use it in their everyday lives in order to have an optimistic result to a problem. Using their thinking skills will help get rid of making mistakes most of the times. I work in a Medical Office, I have been working there for about eight months now and it’s been a great help for me and my family, I make just enough money to support my family.
As a certified Medical Assistant I usually deal with people who are going through some type of illness or emotional turmoil. There are so many different stories I hear from people and It opened my mind to realize how important thinking process is for my job. How important is thinking? We spend all our lives thinking and miss thinking of multiple decisions and ideas. Thinking is a very important process of how our thoughts, when transferred verbally or written on paper, can produce a clearer understanding of our views. The nature of logic as it relates to critical thinking, and my perceptual process have been influenced through sources of enculturation. I have found that my perception can easily be clouded and once that takes place, I find it difficult to think clearly or come to a
conclusion.

My own process of thinking begins with taking the information in and making my own observation on each individual situation. I wouldn’t say that my process of thinking is always rational and my barriers tend to be my projection as well as my anger when someone doesn’t understand or in my observation take the time to understand my point of view. Memories is experience in my opinion. You think back to similar situation and try to use the past to navigate the present. Well in my line of work I can 't spend to much time thinking on a subject. I have to have concrete evidence to support the situation. For example: When a patience comes in to see the doctor and say that their stomach hurts, then the doctor will run test, like x-rays or CAT scan to determine the real problem. I can 't think of a solution for their problems. When Lord Lytton said; “The easiest person to deceive is one’s self.” It was a quote that I couldn’t agree more with.
Describing the difference between the sensing process, defining memory and describing the medium would best be defined as a complete process of the way our brain functions when it first starts the process of intake of the information. The methods and principles used in distinguishing correct and incorrect thinking; for an example, a person ability to make sense of something. Logic will be different for each individual. This is due to each individual 's upbringing, beliefs, and experiences. The meaning of perception is a person 's view of something; for example, humans use perception to interpret knowledge from one 's individual perspective using emotion, and opinion. Perception is crucial for determining an individual 's knowledge of the subject at hand. Everyone has their own way of thinking. An example of that is the other day, the phone rang and as soon as I saw my sister’s name, I let out an enormous sigh. She had called to express her frustration in me because she felt I wasn’t keeping in touch with my uncle. I tried to explain that I do talk to him on a regular basis but that I do have my own life as well. She went into this lengthy story on how he was going through a hard time in his life, I tried to explain that I understood that but that I was also going through a hard time and I was getting over a sickness as well. She wasn’t listening and that immediately
made me feel the need to defend myself. I now realize I was upset before picking up the phone and once it was apparent that she wasn’t trying to understand my point of view, nor was I trying to understand hers, it was clear that this conversation would have no conclusion except two frustrated family members. So I told her goodbye! Our ability to put together what is with what is not also means that we can "see" absences. For example, one can look in the refrigerator and see "no milk." He adds that this also influences our outlook on the world. We are much less enslaved by the present than other species, but this is both good and bad. For example, we can become paralyzed by a mistake made ten years ago, or we can become obsessed with things we don 't have. We spend a tremendous amount of time suffering and wondering what might have been. (Susan Barrett ). The thinking process can be overwhelming. In my process of learning to think with a clearer thought. I will take it step by step until I get to an end point or a solution.

References
Barrett, Susan L. It 's All In Your Head. Minnesota: Free Spirit Publishing Inc., 2005 http://www.lcmedia.com/mind342.htm>(March 2003) Creating Media that Matters, p 127-140 http://www.dictionary.com/ >(January 2002) www.reelyredd.com/english-0308lytton-chess.htm> (May 2004)