Critical Thinking and Decision Making
Critical Thinking and Decision Making Is there a relationship between critical thinking and decision-making? This paper examines how critical thinking and decision-making are processes that complement each other and how the use of one process increases the effectiveness of the other. It also examines the definitions of critical thinking and decision-making and offers an opinion on their relationship. ... What is critical thinking? The text Critical thinking: Strategies in decision making states that it refers to the following: 1. Awareness of a set of interrelated critical questions 2. Ability to ask and answer critical questions at appropriate times, and 3. Desire to actively use the critical questions. ... 4) An alternative definition of critical thinking is that critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of evaluating information gathered from various sources, as a guide to belief and action.