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Stages of Critical Thinking
Part 1: Stages of Critical Thinking
Complete the matrix by identifying the four beginning stages of critical thinking as detailed in Critical Thinking.
Stages of critical thinking
Stage description
The unreflective thinker The unreflective thinker is self- centered. They believe what they believe even when all facts points to them being wrong. They wake around the world as if everything’s black and white.
The challenged Thinker
Becoming aware of your thinking patterns. Recognition that problem in our thinking are causing problems in our life.
The Beginning Thinker
The stage where you start to realize your thinking process is yours. You start to uncover why you think the way you do.
The Practicing Thinker
Practice makes perfect. Establishing habits in thinking.
Part 2: Your Thinking
Write a 75- to 150-word explanation of your current level of critical-thinking development, and explain why you placed yourself at that stage.
After reading “The Beginning Thinker,” I knew that’s my style of thinking. I have been thru so much in my life that now I break my thinking process down. I analyze everything. Like I have said I’m an addict and just to be able to come to that thinking process was the hardest thing I have ever done. I was in deny and block the thought of being an addict. I’m more open to the idea that I have or had a problem. I try to change my thinking pattern around more now than before. I look at different solution in a whole new light. I try to figure out why something is the way it is then just saying it is what it is. I want to know what caused it, how to fix it and how I could have done it different. I tend to ask question when I’m stuck but I still try to dominate others to get what I want. I also believe that I’m in this thinking stage because I still can remember being in the Challenged Thinker stage and being able to remember where you was and where you are now is very
Stages of Critical Thinking
Part 1: Stages of Critical Thinking
Complete the matrix by identifying the four beginning stages of critical thinking as detailed in Critical Thinking.
Stages of critical thinking
Stage description
The unreflective thinker The unreflective thinker is self- centered. They believe what they believe even when all facts points to them being wrong. They wake around the world as if everything’s black and white.
The challenged Thinker
Becoming aware of your thinking patterns. Recognition that problem in our thinking are causing problems in our life.
The Beginning Thinker
The stage where you start to realize your thinking process is yours. You start to uncover why you think the way you do.
The Practicing Thinker
Practice makes perfect. Establishing habits in thinking.
Part 2: Your Thinking
Write a 75- to 150-word explanation of your current level of critical-thinking development, and explain why you placed yourself at that stage.
After reading “The Beginning Thinker,” I knew that’s my style of thinking. I have been thru so much in my life that now I break my thinking process down. I analyze everything. Like I have said I’m an addict and just to be able to come to that thinking process was the hardest thing I have ever done. I was in deny and block the thought of being an addict. I’m more open to the idea that I have or had a problem. I try to change my thinking pattern around more now than before. I look at different solution in a whole new light. I try to figure out why something is the way it is then just saying it is what it is. I want to know what caused it, how to fix it and how I could have done it different. I tend to ask question when I’m stuck but I still try to dominate others to get what I want. I also believe that I’m in this thinking stage because I still can remember being in the Challenged Thinker stage and being able to remember where you was and where you are now is very