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Characteristics of a Critical Thinker
Learning Process
Problem Solving
Key Terms
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Being open to all viewpoints and evaluates them equally
What is fair-mindedness
100
This is the phase where you take in information without yet knowing what it means.
What is the reception phase
100
This method of problem solving would be dangerous to determine the food to supply a dehydrated and malnourished patient.
What is trial and error
100
A problem–solving method whereby a person instinctively, without logical thinking, identifies a solution to a problem based on its similarity or dissimilarity to other problems.
What is intuitive problem solving
200
Belief in well-reasoned thinking will lead to trustworthy conclusions.
What is confidence
200
This is the phase where your brain recognizes information as important or unimportant.
What is the selection phase
200
A recovery nurse who intervenes to help a postoperative patient whose condition is worsening even before there are measurable signs of trouble uses this method of problem solving.
What is intuitive problem solving
200
Describes how the brain stores and retrieves information.
What is working memory
300
Applying the same rigorous standards of proof to his or her own knowledge and beliefs as the person would apply to the knowledge and beliefs of others.
What is integrity
300
RICE- rest, ice, compression, elevation is an example of ...
What is an acronym
300
A systematic problem-solving process involving seven steps.
What is scientific problem solving
300
A systematic way to form and shape one's thinking.
What is critical thinking
400
Regina is a new radiologic technician fresh out of school. She is still learning and asks her mentor for advice and guidance when she doesn't understand a directive or procedure.
What is humility
400
Making ___________ links familiar items and new information to remember new information.
What is associations
400
The five steps of basic problem solving.
What is identifying the problem, gathering information and identify solutions, select the best option, implement the solution, evaluate the results
400
Words created from the first letter of each word in a phrase or each item on a list.
What is an acronym
500
Norm, a five-year-old that just had an abdominal surgery, needs to breathe reply with an apparatus to help prevent pneumonia. The apparatus, however, upsets and hurts him. Instead, to solve the problem, the therapist obtains some bubble solution and has the boy blow bubble through a wand.
What is creativity
500
The textbook says that bowel obstruction sounds like a "whooshing" sound. Your instructor demonstrates the "whooshing" sound. In this phase, you attach meaning to the sound.
What is perception phase
500
Differential diagnosis is an example of this method of problem solving.
What is trial-and-error problem solving
500
Phrases or sentences created from the first letter of each item on a list.
What is acrostics