Critical Thinking
Creative Thinking
Practical Thinking
Thinking Skills
100

The process of gathering information, breaking it into parts, examining and evaluating those parts, and making connections for the purposes of gaining understanding, solving a problem, or making a decision.

What is analytical thinking? (critical thinking works too.)

100
To generate new ideas that may bring about change.
What is creative thinking?
100
Refers to how you adapt to your environment, shape or change your environment to adapt to you, to pursue important goals.
What is practical thinking?
100
Recognizing that something needs to change, to identify what's happening, and to look for true causes.
What is defining?
200
Raw material for thinking. Another word for "data".
What is Information?
200
Letting your mind wander to come up with different ideas or answers. A storm of thoughts.
What is Brainstorming?
200
Also known as "common sense" or "street smarts".
What is Practical Thinking.
200
To gather information, break it down into pieces, verify facts, and evaluate information. Another word for examining.
What is analyze?
300
A set of connected ideas, supported by examples, made by a writer to prove or disprove a point. (Think of a relationship, both sides want to be right, but they can't reach a compromise so easily)
What is an Argument?
300
This word is also referred to as brainstorming. The original word means "to go or extend in different directions from a common point; branch out."
What is divergent thinking?
300
Through personal experience, you can build this. Also known as "EQ".
What is emotional intelligence?
300
Generating possible solutions by using creative strategies to think of ways you could address the causes of this problem. You are "making" a solution.
What is "create"?
400
Facts, expert opinion, research findings, personal experience and such, that are used to support a claim/idea. (These items support an argument.)
What is evidence?
400
Comparisons based on a resemblance of things otherwise unlike. (Similarity between two subjects)
What are analogies? (Analogy)
400
The logical result of practical thinking. After you think of something, what do you do? You take....?
What is action?
400
"Assessing" solutions by looking carefully at potential pros and cons of each, and choose what seems best.
What is evaluating?
500
A characteristic way of thinking about people, situations, events, and ideas. One's point of view.
What is Perspective?
500
Imaginary environments in which new ideas can grow. A type of prediction; a "what-if" question.
What is a hypotheses?
500
"What matters most i not how much experience you have had but rather how much you have profited from it - in other words, how well you apply what you have learned." Who says this quote?
Who is Robert Sternberg?
500
Putting you solution at work by focusing on results and believing in yourself as you go for your goal. You are doing something.
What is "practical action"? (action)
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