Critical thinking‚ according to Micheal Scriven & Richard Paul are defined as the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skilfully conceptualizing‚ applying‚ analyzing‚ synthesizing and evaluating information gathered from‚ or generated by‚ observation experience reflection‚ reasoning or communication as a guide to belief and action. Critical thinking is the general term given to a wide range of cognitive and intellectual skills needed to effectively identify‚ analyze and evaluate
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Positive Thinking There are many techniques that I have come across to do this. Some of the most practical are: - Expose your mind to the right things. - Watch the right movies. - Listen to the right music. - Read the right books. - Associate with the right people. Stay away from negative people – they will drain you of your energy and drag you down with them. Avoid them like the plague. Thinking right is not a quick-fix process. You cannot change 20 year old habits in one week. You
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Critical Thinking The concepts of critical thinking and perception are both gaining increasing importance in the world today. Critical thinking allows one to understand difficult concepts in a manner that is clearer and more defined. One can more readily understand those concepts if they employ critical thinking. In all portions of everyday life‚ a person is expected to make independent judgments. Those judgments are based on experience and knowledge. Without the ability to think critically‚ every
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Essay #4 ENL Word Count 868 Final Draft Groupthink Have you ever been in a group of people where the group decision is different from your thoughts but you reject to speak up because of the group pressure? The Sociological idea of an individual losing control of their behavior when they are in a group is defined as Groupthink. Some recent studied prove that when humans are in group‚ their actions are directly affected by the interaction with the group. In addition‚ there are evidences in which
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New Topics for Critical Thinking Project Sustainable development becomes a challenge because we have conflicting needs. We want fresh‚ clean air to breathe but we also want to buy cars We want to conserve forests but we need trees to build houses We want to swim in clean waters but we need factories. Factories usually use water from rivers to power machinery or to cool down machinery How do we balance conflicting needs? What are the important steps that have to be undertaken to achieve the
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CRITICAL THINKING “Learning without thought is labour lost.” – Confucius Richard Paul (a prominent advocate of CRITICAL THINKING) says‚ “Alternative solutions are often not given‚ they must be generated or thought-up. Critical thinkers must be creative thinkers as well generating possible solutions in order to find the best one. Very often a problem persists‚ not because we can’t tell which available solution is best‚ but because the best solution has not yet been made available – no one has thought
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Critical Thinking There are many problems in the world today. To change many of these problems people may need to change their way of thinking and become critical thinkers. Everything we do is determined by how we think. We now face the probability of wars‚ we have hunger throughout‚ our natural habitats are declining‚ and we face global warming. Everyday lives are stressful in a fast paced world. It may be possible to solve these problems if more people understood how to be critical thinkers
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QUESTIONNAIRE – CTI We have taken this tool Constructive thinking inventory (CTI) from the book “Constructive Thinking The key to emotional intelligence by Seymour Epstein“ As mentioned by the book author Epstein‚ this tool (CTI) is a reliable and valid measure of the constructive and deconstructive thinking in which people normally engage in. In addition the author Epstein claims that “this tool has been administered to large samples of people and constructed according to recognized psychological
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Lateral thinking is solving problems through an indirect and creative approach‚ using reasoning that is not immediately obvious and involving ideas that may not be obtainable by using only traditional step-by-step logic. The term lateral thinking was coined by Edward de Bono in the book New Think: The Use of Lateral Thinking published in 1967. Lateral thinking‚ is the ability to think creatively‚ or "outside the box" as it is sometimes referred to in business‚ to use your inspiration and imagination
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According to Berger‚ a characteristic of adolescent thinking that leads young people (ages 10 to 13) to focus on themselves to the exclusion of others. A young person might believe for example that his or her thoughts‚ feelings‚ and experiences are unique‚ more wonderful or awful than anyone else’s (Berger‚ 2007). According to David Elkind (1967)‚ adolescent egocentrism‚ which includes a belief by teenagers that they are special and unique‚ accompanies the achievement of new mental abilities. Specifically
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