What Is Critical Thinking?

What is critical thinking?

Critical thinking can be defined as a reflective thinking, which is designed to decide what to believe or what to actually do. In simpler terms, it can be said to be a way of deciding whether a claim at hand is true, somewhat true or false (Fisher, 2001). Critical thinking is an important asset when it comes to solving community problem and developing initiatives in human services. It involves being thrown in a questioning mode by an idea that variances with your understanding of the environment and makes you somehow uncomfortable. If in any case you respond to the discomfort, you will figure out where it came from and how to come in terms with the situation. You will also have a new perspective of the situation and will have a more critical understanding of your current situation.

What are the three most significant things about critical thinking?

The three most significant things about critical thinking are; it identifies bias, it brings out the whole picture and it's oriented towards the issue being addressed. Identifying bias means looking at bias situation in the way it looks like and biases the person involved brings to it. Bringing the whole picture means getting more than just the delineate of what is being examined. Lastly, being oriented towards the issues being addressed means focusing on analyzing and understanding its object. It does away with emotional reactions apart from where these emotions become part of a solution (Fisher, 2001).

Reevaluate the stage of the advanced thinking category in development in critical thinking and explain why people place themselves in that stage.

There are six stages in development critical thinking and they include the unreflective thinker, challenged thinker, beginning thinker, practicing thinker, advanced thinker and master thinker. People place themselves in unreflective thinker stage when they lack the ability to openly assess their thinking and improve it so as to eliminate problems in their lives. People place themselves in the second stage when they become originally aware of the formative role that thinking is playing in their day today living, and that problems in their thinking are bringing them significant and serious problems. People move to the third stage when they recognize that they have a problem in their thinking and they make an attempt to understand how they can be in charge of the problem and also improve the situation. People move to stage four when they have a sense that they have to develop some habits so that they can take charge of their thinking. They also see the need to attack the problems at hand in a systematic manner. People move to the fifth stage when they come up with established habits of thoughts that bring positive results. They have significant imminent into their problems at a deeper level of thoughts. Finally,