Question

Chapter One: Thinking and Reading: a Critical Connection p 1-10 Jon Carroll: The Problem With New Datae p. 5 Reading Question: What is Critical Thinking and why is it Important? What does Carroll mean by "brain lock" issue? Response should be at least one page. Use examples from the book to illustrate your explanation.

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Answer :

Critical thinking : it is defined as, it is a capacity to think creatively, and there will be present rationality for what ever the actions taken to solve the problem , and also decision making process with creativity and to improve the effective ness of health care.

Importance of critical thinking :

* it is very important to gain new knowledge.

* by these we can control our own learning.

* it useful like as a self direction during taking in decisions.

* we can monitor our thinking capacity by this critical thinking.

* it is important to make plans or actions to solve the problems.

* if we not meet the goals , again it is useful to take new decisions.

* it is important in fast changing in working places.

* flexibility of intellectual skills will be there, so according to the situations we can take decisions.

* it is important to take a rationalized judgement, and logical skills, while some one just orguments on the work, they have rationality to their work.

* it is important to understand the logical connections in between the ideas.

So the critical thinking is important.

Brain lock : it is a temporary confusion, inability to take decisions and mental paralysis is called brain lock issue.

Brain lock is a series of psychological and biological adoptions and underlying irrelationalships, of those.

According to Carroll brain lock is obsessive compulsive disorder, repeated doing of works due to lack of thinking capacity.