Analyzing And Applying Critical Thinking

The outcome that I think will be the most challenging for me will probably be demonstrating critical thinking skills in response to readings/texts. That will probably be challenging because defining what appeals to the ethos, pathos, logos can get a tad bit confusing for me and sometimes I can mix things up. For example, if I think something is appealing to logic, in reality, it is appealing to emotions and values. Interpreting visual arguments can also be difficult due to the fact that interpreting is dependent on one's background knowledge and experiences. So the way I interpret something could be different to what someone else interprets.

In the book “Asking the Right Questions, A Guide to Critical Thinking” M. Neil Browne and Stuart M. Kelley discuss the ten steps to critical thinking. In the following pages I will apply these steps to a memo that was sent to Mr. Robert Shaw of Triad Insurance Company of Indianapolis and discuss them in detail. The memo was from Ms. Denise Khali, Vice President of Human Resources. D. Khali, personal communication, October 04, 2010.

When a person, such as Ryan, is considering applying to a college or university there can be many psychological factors that can play a part in determining your actions. The things you become exposed to, assumptions about people, and your motivations are all attributing to our life decisions.

“Most: Conger (1991) states in many instances an executive will overtly or covertly influence a team’s proposal, perhaps by picking team members whose opinions are already known, making his or her preferences clear in advance, or signaling opinions during the recommendation phase. If that is the case, the decision maker becomes a de facto member of the recommendation team and can no longer judge the quality of the proposal because his or her own biases have influenced it”

1. My current situation with work isn't that great. I told my boss that I have school and that is my main focus this fall. They really want me to work so they can get things done. The problem is they are going to give me the crappy jobs that nobody wants. Why would I go back when I would be given the crappy jobs to do? I currently have enough money to cover my schooling costs. It bothers me that they can't hire someone else. It's almost like they expect me to come back and work.

Critical thinking involves rationalizing a given situation and objectively evaluating information (Myers, 2011). This particular method of processing information forces one to assess misleading evidence and strive for accuracy in recorded findings as opposed to trusting his/her, often faulty, intuition. The ability to think critically is very crucial to psychology when evaluating test results because it requires one to ask questions, second guess his/her assumptions, and ignore biases. Critical thinking can be influenced in both biological and psychological ways. The skill of thinking critically can be influenced psychologically because one must yearn to want to evaluate properly and question things rather than

Critical thinking is very useful when on the topic of money. I seem to always over think things when money is involved. A big idea that I have been throwing around is moving back to the Quad Cities for many of reasons that being moving closer to family and friends, my schooling, and the cost of living changing. There are many things I need to consider when trying to make this decision. I believe using critical thinking will definitely help me make the best decision for myself. The problem that I face is I over analyze when looking at the big picture. This makes the decision making part of critical thinking tough. I am not very good on the decision making part of critical thinking. If it has to do with an issue in the world or country, I have

The critical thinking process can be broken down into eight elements. These elements are: purpose, question, information, conclusion, assumption, point of view, concepts, and implications. While all of these steps aren't vital to the critical thinking process, most of them have proven to be very helpful in my college career. Instilling critical thinking skills into us as students has been a goal of SCC since I have been here, these skills are an important part of any education as the will translate into the work environment.

I found this activity helpful. I want to start eating healthier, but first, I had to ask myself a question. What factors contribute to my unhealthy diet? I identified the things I eat, circled the unhealthy foods and decided to cut them out my diet. My obstacles are sticking with the diet, so I identified my obstacles by narrowing the root of the problem. I researched some healthy eating plan to follow. I created possible solutions, and comments about my new diet, and I went grocery shopping for healthier foods.

Thinking is like talking to your soul in itself. Those are some of your most personal thoughts that is often unspoken. Your inner thoughts is generally followed by some sort of real motive. Just imagine have you ever had a busy day planned ahead and you didn’t know what to do first? So the night before as you slept you thought about all your possible routes and the time frames to do what first. Or if you were facing a major or even minor crisis which caused you to evaluate a situation further. In both of these scenarios it has resulted me to think about my thinking process. Sometimes we can overthink so much and miss the primary reason of what the initial cause was. However, once it is established then from there I will be able to analyze what

“Metacognition means thinking about thinking and can be applied in two general ways. It can mean thinking about the way that you learn best.” (Capella University, 2017) The other meaning of metacognition is the process of monitoring progress in thinking and learning in order to improve that way that you think. Monitoring how you learn and which strategies work the best for you, makes you the manager of your own learning. By doing this, it will help you be more successful whether it is with your school work, work at your job, and/or anything else that requires thinking.

“What do you think you will learn in this class” is a commonly asked question among teachers. It’s an important question, it helps teachers know what to focus on in class, and what the students are interested in. it’s always been a hard question for me because I used to think “duh, I think I’ll learn about ethics and religious culture, what more do you need?” or something along those lines. But recently I’ve learned the deeper meaning of questions like this. It’s meant to teach kids that their education is in their hands, whether they like it or not. Sure, you have to expect something from your teachers, they have a responsibility to teach you, but you can’t expect them to know what you need. You need to help them

Analysts who adopt critical thinking stand to improve their analyses. However, according to dictionary.com, critical thinking means “disciplined thinking that is clear, rational, open-minded, and informed by evidence.” I believe that critical thinking will help prepare me to avoid accepting misinformation, succumbing to deception and falling for intentional misdirection when I look at information intercepted with a degree of skepticism. Skepticism, meaning that when an information is written, printed, and available online or said by someone it doesn't mean it is true. Within this thinking process, I will use my knowledge and intelligence to effectively arrive at the most reasonable and justifiable positions on issues. This will endeavor that

After reviewing the critical thinking question, I do think that the student did jump at the job opportunity based on her emotions. In the question it states that she had an admiration for this employer and said yes, before looking into other possible job opportunities. To me, she let her emotions guide her when making the decision to take the job as oppose to finding other job opportunities. I think that most people are swayed by their emotions or gut feelings they have about making a life changing decision. I also think her decision had to with her just being fresh out of college because it could be that she does not have a lot of job experience. Also, this was the first job offered to her and she did not have to put effort into looking for

Critical thinking is an analysis technique that is used to assess the matter presented in a reasonable and reflective manner and reach upon a conclusion. It involves scrutinizing the case for evidences presented, critique on the conclusions drawn, identification of logical relationships and fallacies, investigation for misinterpretations and other intellectual methods. This paper contains the application of one such application model to test the conclusion and the basal reasons and statistics laid down in personal communication under scrutiny. Fallacies are identified and it is found that the conclusion drawn is illogical and misleading.