Apprehensive Critical Thinking

Self- esteem is used to describe a person's overall sense of self- worth or personal value.

2. In the 21st century exposure to media is an everyday event for most of us. Even at the grocery store, we see magazines and newspapers with eye-catching headings that may not be true. Also, the news is everywhere, and with technology on the rise, we even get news alerts on our phones. The media has taken over society. Most of the stories we read about seem to be true but in reality, are they giving a true insight of what is actually happening? Some of the stories cause people to become blindfolded from reality. This is because the stories that people read or see have a profound impact on shaping our reality rather they are true or not. We see the news about events that are going on in the world; rather they are catastrophic events or devastating events that were done by humans.

After reading " CLUES to Critical Thinking" in chapter 5, I disagree with the Supreme Court's decision to allow Law enforcements to strip search an arrested individual who had only committed a minor offense. The Fourth Amendment clearly states that, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated. Unreasonable can be defined as not guided by or based on good sense, which in this case, strip searching an individual for a minor offense can be seen as unreasonable. The only time a cop should be able to strip search you is when the officer has a reasonable suspicion that you are either carrying contraband or an illegal weapon, that is what strip searches are for. It is not

Confirmation Bias: only explore information that supports our ideas Hindsight Bias: reporting untruthfully that we projected an outcome Availability Heuristic: calculating possibilities grounded on ease of recall Base-Rate Fallacy: disregarding information about universal principles Representativeness Heuristic: making decisions grounded on stereotypes

What did you already know about Critical Thinking: Making Inferences and Analyzing the Author’s Message? Respond to each concept. What did you already know about making inferences? What did you already know about analyzing the author’s message?

Beliefs, attitudes and values are three little words that have and make a massive impact on who we are as individuals, who we are as people, and even how the world is viewed by ourselves and others. A belief is something that individuals or groups think, such as believing in a god. Where a Value would be the living life in the ways a religion expects, this value will be made from the belief that the person or group has in their God. The attitude towards this would be the feelings, beliefs and behaviour tendencies towards this, for example praying, reading the holy book,

What potential barrier(s) to critical thinking did you notice in the reading? What ‘evidence’ presented in the case supports your choice? How would you suggest this issue (potential barrier to critical thinking) might best be addressed in order for the ‘protagonist’ of the case to be more effective?

The Purpose of this paper is to apply the 10 steps developed by (Browne & Keeley, 2010) and I will apply those methods on the following memo. A memo was drafted by Ms. Mary Ford (personal communication, January 30, 2012) who is Director of Amalgamated Public Employees Union (APEU) Local No. 121 to Mr. Hector Fuentes the President of APEU Local No. 121 on the issue on New Mexico State Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) Outsourcing, proposed by the New Mexico Governor Gloria Gainor. This is response memo to the Governor’s (personal communication, October 20, 2011) letter informing the APEU Local No. 121 the intent to

When the Judge admonished the Jury, he told them they must reach a unanimous decision beyond a reasonable doubt. The "hero" of this movie appears to be Henry Fonda, the first juror to vote "not guilty". He kept challenging the evidence by saying "isn 't it possible?"...that the evidence was wrong. Do some critical thinking on this...using a good paragraph answer if "isn 't it possible?" is the same thing as "beyond a reasonable doubt." Start with a “yes” or “no” and then eleaborate.

In the book “Asking the Right Questions, A Guide to Critical Thinking” M. Neil Browne and Stuart M. Kelley discuss the ten steps to critical thinking. In the following pages I will apply these steps to a memo that was sent to Mr. Robert Shaw of Triad Insurance Company of Indianapolis and discuss them in detail. The memo was from Ms. Denise Khali, Vice President of Human Resources. D. Khali, personal communication, October 04, 2010.

According to The Critical Thinking Community website, critical thinking is defined as the ability to consider and to analyze information in an unbiased manner in order to make decisions and judgments (2013). Critical thinking is important. Blooms Taxonomy breaks critical thinking as Evaluation Synthesis Analysis Application, Comprehension and Knowledge. The components of critical thinking are: the application of logic and accepted intellectual standards to reasoning; the ability to access and evaluate evidence; the application of knowledge in clinical reasoning; and a disposition for inquiry that includes openness, self-assessment, curiosity, skepticism, and dialogue.

I have witnessed different obstacles to critical thinking such as prejudice, ignorance, fear and racism. For example, I have had arguments with my Aunt Linda in the past, who was furious that my cousin was majoring in Spanish, where her prejudices clearly got in the way of her critical thinking, or ability to be objective and have rational opinions. She is not stupid; she went to Columbia law school and is fluent in many languages, but still has formed these ideas that her WASP background is superior without any evidence, just her deep rooted hate. To her, her belief that Spanish is a disgusting language spoken by disgusting people is justified.

Look to your left and then look to your right, take in everything around you. All one sees is a materialistic world in a 3D environment. Philosophers always questioned the system and the world we live in. Then there is a space in our awareness of reality and the environment around us, between our knowledge and the external world. There’s a “veil of perception” lies between us and the physical world we interact with. For example, someone that watches the stars assumes that they are millions and millions of light-years away from him. Yet, what he sees are the stars inside himself. The external world is a planet consisting of a huge number of objects and events that are experienced or whose existence is accepted by the mind, but which exist independently

Social media are a highly influential part of society these days. The main reasons for this being that they are easily accessible and require very little forethought and research skills. These are also the reasons why it is often argued whether or not social media are hindering critically thinking. The problem with social media platforms, in relation to critical thinking, is that they leave little room for thoughtful response to issues and offer more room for readers to do a quick scan and go. With word limits and like buttons in use on social media sites, Jason Brooks finds, "people often resort to sentimental platitudes that endorse their opinion rather than support it". However, this leads to the thought that people were more efficient in

In the readings this week, we learned about the many aspects of being a critical thinker, as well as methods for developing critical thinking skills and critical problem solving. These are all important aspects of everyday life required to ensure even the simplest of tasks are done effectively and with the use of good judgment.