What is critical thinking?
Critical thinking standards
Skills of a critical thinker
Reason and emotion
Critical thinking in life
100

This is a broad category of skills, attitudes, and self-analysis used to analyze and evaluate problems.

What is critical thinking
100

Expressing ideas clearly and understandably refers to this standard.

What is clarity?

100

These skills involve analyzing and logically supporting beliefs.

What are analytical skills?

100

This is the process of using evidence to support a claim.

What is reason (reasoning)?

100

Critical thinking helps avoid costly mistakes in this area.

What is personal decision-making?

200

Critical thinkers must provide this instead of just giving opinions.

What is reason and evidence

200

Giving exact answers to exact questions reflects this standard

What is precision?

200

This skill involves speaking, writing, and listening effectively.

What is effective communication?

200

This philosopher believed happiness required living a life of reason and wrote Critique of Pure Reason.

Who is Immanuel Kant?

200

Employers value employees with strong critical thinking and these skills.

What are communication and problem-solving skills?

300

Accepting uninformed opinions can lead to this.

What is poor-decision making

300

Garbage in, garbage out” refers to this standard

What is accuracy?

300

These skills involve locating reliable sources and asking precise questions.

What are research and inquiry skills?

300

The ability to recognize and understand your own emotions.

what is self awareness?

300

Using evidence before forming an opinion on a news story.

what is evaluating resources?

400

This term means “thinking about your own thinking.”

What is metacognition?

400

What are the five components of emotional intelligence

Self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social-skills. 

400

Welcoming change and working with diverse perspectives shows this skill.

What is flexibility and tolerance for ambiguity?

400

The ability to use emotions like empathy in thinking is called this.

What is emotional intelligence?

400

Questioning one’s beliefs and biases demonstrates the philosophical virtue. 

what is intellectual humility? 

500

Critical thinking is described as this type of approach to managing life.

What is a total approach?

500

Being unbiased and open-minded refers to this critical thinking standard.

What is fairness?

500

Using imagination and creativity to solve problems describes this skill.

What is creative problem solving?

500

This philosopher divided the soul into rational and non-rational parts in Phaedrus.

Who is Plato?

500

Applying logical reasoning to solve workplace or academic problems

What is problem solving?