Critical Thinking Definition

Introduction

Everyday people make decisions in professional and personal matters. Making those decisions are done everyday without truly understanding how the decision was made. People use critical thinking without knowing that critical thinking was involved. In this paper, I will explore the definition of critical thinking and how people use critical thinking and the decision making process.

Definition

Critical thinking can be defined as “thinking explicitly aimed a well-founded judgment, utilizing appropriate evaluative standards in and attempt to determine the true worth, merit, or value of something” (Paul & Elder, 2006). Based on the definition of critical thinking, three phases ...