Question

Considering only the Introduction to Chapter 5, in terms of developing critical thinking and reasoning, what do you consider is the most valuable and important idea in that section? You can either summarize or directly quote the text; then, briefly explain why you find this idea important and valuable?

Answer 1

ANSWER: CRITICAL THINKING IS MOST IMPORTANT THAN REASONING. Critical thinking is the act of understanding or analyzing the problem in a critical way and try to solve it. It is a systematic process of solving the problem that includes different steps:

• identify problem
• create inference
• collect data
• organize data
• plan a care
• implement it or analyze it
• evaluation and way to improve the solutions I if lacking

The importance of critical thinking are:

• improves decision making: Critical thinking gives the opportunity to develop good thinking skills and good decision-making skills, We can analyze the situation, collect data, and can plan care for patient or solve the problems.
• gain knowledge: We can gain knowledge in any field with this critical thinking, it gives an opportunity to get a in-depth knowledge related to a particular problem. We select a problem, gathers data, plan, and then analyze it again we do improvement, all these steps help to gain in-depth knowledge.
• improve creativity: Critical thinking gives an opportunity to think problem solution in a creative way, with this we can think of different ways to solve the problem and unique one way.
• improve communication: It also gives an opportunity to develop language skills and improve your communication skills. This teaches us how to talk, behave, and represent yourself in front of others.
• improves morales,empathy: With this we can give support emotional support and can empathize the patient or any person. It improves our morals, values and teach that every individual is unique.
• self-reflection: Critical thinking is a type of self-reflection. It reflects what we think, what we do, and give a meaningful life. Crtical thinking gives us a tool for self-evaluation and with this we can improve ourselves.

The skills you need or behavior you need to become a good critical thinker:

• impartuality
• independent thoughts
• spiritual courage
• integrity
• perseverance
• confidence in justification
• interest
• introspection
• identifying biases
• compession and empathy
• open mindedness
• communication skills