3. Critical Thinking
• Rationality-reason not emotion
• Self Awareness-weigh influence of motives and
bias
• Honesty- self discipline
• Open-mindless-evaluate
• DISCIPLINE- carefully and meticulous
• JUDGMENT- how much we weigh the evidence
In all critical thinkers are skeptical, active not
passive and will challenge their own beliefs.
4. The Unreflective Thinker
Master Thinker
Advanced Thinker
Practicing Thinker
Beginning Thinker
Challenged Thinker
STRATEGIES OF CRITICAL
THINKING
5. • Clarify- A clear understanding of the
problem.
• Attempt To Find a Solution-Include the
benefits and challenges of each solution.
• Gather Information- As much as possible
to support all the solutions you are
considering.
• Learn How To Analyze-Take everything
into consideration and don’t assume
anything.
6. • Stereotyping-Seeing what you expect to
see
• Difficulty in seeing the problem
• tendency to delimiting the problem area to
closely
• Inability to see the problem from various
viewpoints
• Saturation
• Failure to utilize all sensory inputs
