Critical Thinking. What is it?

 In the first week of my Critical Thinking class, we questioned the process of Thinking and discovered more about it. So What is Thinking? According to the lesson Thinking is defined as:

"mental activity that helps to formulate or solve a problem, to make a decision, or to fulfill a desire to understand. Aspects of thinking include:

·         Searching for answers, a reaching for meaning

·         A purposeful mental activity over which we exercise some control

·         A mental activity that is not always conscious; sometimes it takes place in the back of our minds

·         Thoughts that commonly take a verbal form in our minds, but might also be pictorial or iconic

·         Thoughts that are abstract and sometimes confusing

Who knew that an activity could be more than physical? We also learned about Critical Thinking as well as the thinking process of solving arguments.

Here is a video that explains the Critical Thinking process

Critical Thinking explained