Stages of C T Development
The Game Plan Options
Personal Barriers - Emotional Influences
Stress
Questions
100
In this stage of Critical Thinking development, the thinker has no useful concept of what thinking entails.
What is an unreflective thinker?
100
The key to this option is that time is "spent", and if we had considered our options, we wouldn't have deliberately spent our time in that way.
What is Use "wasted" time?
100
It distorts our perception of a situation, colors our ability to think critically about it, and impairs our self-control.
What is Anger?
100
Poor concentration; Poor memory; Paranoid thinking; low self-esteem; and constant worrying falls under what sign of stress?
What is Cognitive Signs?
100
Questions that combine ideas to form a new whole or come to a conclusion, make inferences about future events, create solutions, and design plans of action.
What is Questions of Synthesis?
200
In this stage of Critical Thinking development, the thinker commits themselves to daily practice in thinking well and designing their own plan of practice
What is the Practice Thinker?
200
This plan option states that you should write out a certain number of journal entries each week.
What is keep an intellectual journal?
200
These 5 suggestions lessen the impact of anger - Do not vent your anger; get advice; become assertive; learn to relax; and don't get angry.
What is how to deal with Anger (dealing with anger)?
200
Withdrawal from others; intolerance of others; and displaced aggression towards others fall under what sign of stress?
What is Behavioral signs?
200
Questions that seek to determine basic information about a situation.
What is Questions of Fact?
300
In this stage of Critical Thinking development, the thinker becomes aware of the way that thinking is shaping our lives, including the recognition that problems in our thinking are causing problems in our lives.
What is Challenged Thinker?
300
This plan option, states that you should choose one intellectual trait to strive for, focusing on how you can develop that trait in yourself each month.
What is reshape your character?
300
The intense love of some person, thing, situation, or value to a level that inhibits objective reasoning about its object.
What is passion?
300
Insomnia; fatigue; loss of appetite; ulcers; skin rashes; and headaches fall under what signs of stress?
What is Physical signs?
300
Questions that help make informed judgments and decisions by determining the relative value, truth, or reliability of things.
What is Questions of Evaluation?
400
In this stage of Critical Thinking development, the thinker actively takes on the challenge to grow and develop as a thinker.
What is the Beginning Thinker?
400
This plan option states that you should choose a problem to work on each day.
What is handle a problem a day?
400
This emotion is influenced by a loss of passion for something, biochemical factors, severe stress, a sense of hopelessness, lack of sunlight, and illogical thinking.
What is depression?
400
The following 4 major categories are approaches to what... - removing the outside source of stress - removing the inside source of stress - managing the body's response to stress - preventing stress
What is Stress Management?
400
Questions that seek to separate an entire process or situation into its component parts and to understand the relation of these parts to the whole.
What is Questions of Analysis?
500
In this stage of Critical Thinking development, the thinker's skilled and insightful thinking becomes second nature to them.
What is the Accomplished Thinker?
500
This plan option states that you should closely analyze the behavior that is encouraged and discouraged in the groups to which you belong.
What is Analyze group influences on your life?
500
Enculturation, Self-Concept, Ego Defenses, Self-Serving Biases, and Emotional Influences are type of....
What is Personal Barriers?
500
Depression; moodiness; irritability; Anger; and crying spells fall under what sign of stress?
What is Emotional signs?
500
Questions that seek to select and organize facts and ideas, discovering the relationships among them.
What is Questions of Interpretation?