Critical Thinking Is Defined as the Ability and Willingness to Assess

question 109

True/False

Critical thinking is defined as the ability and willingness to assess claims and make judgments on the basis of well-supported reasons and evidence,rather than emotion or anecdote.

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Definitions:

Unconscious Processes

Mental activities not readily available to conscious awareness, often influencing behaviors, thoughts, and feelings without one's notice.

Psychosexual Stages

According to Freud, stages in the developmental process children pass through; in each stage, sex drives are focused on the stimulation of certain areas of the body, and particular psychological issues can arouse anxiety.

Sequential Order

The arrangement of objects, actions, or events in a specific, logical sequence, one following another.

Superego

In psychoanalytic theory, the part of the psyche that operates as a moral conscience.