Chapter 3: Thinking about Thought Kassie Mitchell, Brandon Mackey, Abdikani Mohmed, Erik Oropeza, max penney, Bryce Lorance

3.1 Types of thinking

3.2 What Critical Thinking Is

3.3 Searching for "aha"

3.4 problem solving and decision making

3.5 Chapter Activities

  1. Applying
  1. Analyzing
  1. Understanding
  1. Evaluating
  1. Remembering and Recalling
  1. Creating

Being able to bring up thoughts or memories to use in current time

Being able to interpret ideas from text

Being able to use information to help you pass a test or answer a question

Breaking down information into comprehensable words

Looking at bits of information in order to find the value

Putting collective information together to summarize something new

Critical Thinking Process

Critical Thinking Is

A way to uncover bias and prejudices

The principle skill used in effective decision making

A foundation for effective communication

Useful Notes

Asking the right questions to understand a problem or issue and then gathering the data you need to complete the decision or take sides on an issue

Understanding is key to successful critical thinking

Make sure you have all the information about each option

Read, Listen, Take notes, and Sudy

Keep an open mind

Look for evidence that contradicts your point of view

Be willing to admit that you lack information to support a point of view or decide

Make sure that your assumptions and points of view are supported by facts

Critical Thinking

Creative thinking

A way to evaluate the strengths of the ideas or concepts by asking questions about them

Is the process of generating new ideas concepts or solutions

Understanding the difference between creative thinking and free forn thinking

Combining old jeans in new ways

Use creative thinking

Think metaphorically

Use metaphors in situations where a complex idea needs to be explained in an easy-to-understand way, also using them to explain a problem in a way that is relevant to your area of study

In other words think outside of the box to solve problems in a simple way

Free form thinking often does not have any direction to reach an objective, while creative thinking is used to find a soulution purposefully

Allows you to come up with your own solutions to problems

Generate possible solution

Choose the best solution:

Narrow the problems

Define the problems

Brainstorming

Use your analytical skills, it helps write out the problems and the answers to the questions and it can clarify your understanding of the problem by using metaphors to illustrate the issue

Use critical thinking to seperate facts from options in this step, many problems are made up of a series of smaller problems, each requiring its own solution

Use your creative thinking skills in this phase, it lists all your options, and it can come up with the second "right" answer or third or fourth

Use your critical thinking skills, it helps select the most likely choices and it lists the pros and cons for each section. These lists compare with the requirements you identified when you defined the problem

A process of generating ideas for solutions in a group. This method is very effective because ideas from one person will trigger additional ideas