Practices in Critical Thinking and Decision-Making Roberta Walson COM/505 August 8‚ 2010 Robert Maddock Abstract Making decisions‚ generating ideas‚ drawing conclusions and evaluating other people’s opinions require careful thought. People tend to use tools and techniques when making decisions or generating ideas; this process is considered critical thinking. Though these techniques can be very helpful‚ it is important to make sure that you haven’t been manipulated in your decision making process
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The Importance of Critical Thinking in Education By: Henderi MBA Student @ Saxion University of Applied Sciences Rainbolt and Dawyer (2012‚ p.5) define the critical thinking is “the skill of making decisions based on good reasons”. McPeck (1981) as cited in Mason (2008)‚ on the other hand‚ said that critical thinking is related to a subject‚ which needs an in-depth understanding‚ about it. Based on that‚ critical thinking should cover both definitions that include the skills and knowledge
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experiments and how they can affect a person’s views. Bias‚ as defined by Merriam-Webster‚ is "a tendency to believe that some people‚ ideas‚ etc.‚ are better than others that usually results in treating some people unfairly." (Merriam-Webster‚ Bias). Each and every person has a set of beliefs that they follow. These beliefs may have been a result of a variety of situations like housing location‚ marital status‚ parental beliefs‚ etc. And according to The Believing Brain: Why Science is the Only Way Out of
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Ethics and Critical Thinking Ethics in Psychotherapy and Counseling 4th ed.‚ Chapter 3 Authors: Kenneth Pope and Melba Vasquez The authors’ main purpose of this chapter is to teach the importance of examining our ethics through the lenses of critical thinking. In general‚ critical thinking is being able to learn new material with an open mind and having a heightened level of self-awareness of our biases and how our biases impact the analysis of information. A critical thinking approach when applied
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R Critical Thinking Paper p.38 1. How might critical thinking be applied to the issue of global climate change? 2. Why do you think some people (even very smart people sometimes avoid thinking critically about issues such as politics‚ the existence of ESP‚ or the supernatural? Critical thinking‚ it is from my own understanding‚ “to think outside the box” or to find some logical and reasonable way to solve a problem. Critical thinking can be applied to the issue of global climate change by first
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Guidelines to Critical Thinking In the discipline of Psychology‚ there are eight guidelines to critical thinking. This essay will discuss all of them with examples to help understand each one. The first is to Ask Questions: Be willing to wonder (Wade & Travis‚ 2008 p.8). Young children may ask questions such as‚ “Why is the sky blue Mommy?” “Why doesn’t the plane fall?” Why don’t pigs have wings?” Unfortunately‚ as children grow up‚ they tend to stop asking “why” questions. Why is this the case? Vincent
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How Language Affects Critical Thinking George Bernard Shaw once said‚ "England and America are two countries separated by the same language" (The Quotations Page). Certainly this quote personifies the paradox that is the English language. The same words have different meanings‚ changes are created by society instead of scholars‚ and a limited vocabulary can often represent a limited mind. In an attempt to further understand language and the affect it has on critical thinking‚ this paper will
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Critical Thinking Critical thinking is a useful tool in everyday life and can assist in major decision making process in one’s business choices. Thinking in a critical may come easier to some than others simply because of the exposure to making decisions under high stress or just making choices to complete tasks. What is Critical Thinking? As stated by Edward Glaser critical thinking is as follows “The ability to think critically‚ as conceived in the volume‚ involves three things: An attitude
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“To be critical in your thinking or arguing means that you question the phenomenon of study rather than simply accept and repeat the facts” To what extent is this questioning expected of university students in essay writing. Draw on relevant unit materials and your experience in SSK12 Critical Thinking in Essay Writing Craig (1994) states‚ ‘To be critical in your thinking or arguing means that you question the phenomenon of study rather than simply accept and repeat the facts’. In this essay
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scenarios: • You are a member of a group working on a class project. The group members are enthusiastic about the project and arrange a meeting time to begin planning. You forget to mark your calendar and miss the meeting. The group posts a summary of the meeting with assignments and deadlines for the project. You apologize to the group and agree to complete the topic research for the project. You realize you have a paper due in another course on the same day that your research is due‚ and you concentrate
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