1. Critical Thinking
Introduction

2. What is your opinion on this?

3. Where did you get your opinion?

4. What do you think?

6. How was your opinion developed?
Was it from your parent’s view?
Was it from your friends’ view?
Was it from the media’s interpretation?
Was it from you own observations and conclusions?

7. What is Critical Thinking?
Critical thinking is an integrated way of examining information, ideas, and proposals.

8. What does it involve?
Being able to question, explore, and deal effectively with yourself, others, and life’s problems
Developing your own view of the world
Being open to new ideas and willing to analyze issues

9. What does it involve?
Supporting your personal views with reasons and evidence, while understanding alternative viewpoints.
Discussing your ideas with others to test and enrich your thinking.

10. Critical Thinking Process
Testing existing ideas and/or solutions for flaws and errors. Being able to apply logic and make one’s own decisions.

11. Steps of Critical Thinking
Identify and describe a problem
Discriminate between fact and opinion
List possible solutions and their consequences
Identify personal and/or family values that conflict with the situation
Take a defensible position based on logic

12. Ask Yourself
Is it against the law, my rules or the teachings of my family or religion?

13. Ask Yourself
Is it harmful to me or to others?

14. Ask Yourself
Would it disappoint my family or other adults who are important to me?

15. Ask Yourself
Is it wrong to do?

16. Ask Yourself
Could I be sorry afterward?

17. Ask Yourself
Would I be hurt or upset if someone did this to me?

18. Ask Yourself
Is it within my value system?

19. Critical Thinking: My Position
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23. The Cost
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28. Eminem

29. Attitudes and Judgments
Customs Manners and Culture

30. The Brain Right Side Interpret Body language
Respond to emotion and feeling
Be intuitive when solving problems
Grasp uncertain truths
Deal simultaneously with several problems at the same time
Can be developed through practice

31. Creative Thinking
What do you see?
Old Woman or Young Woman?

37. Attitude
The position or posture assumed in connection with an action or feeling

38. Your Attitude Influences your decisions
Reflects your attitude toward others
Leads to self-respect
Enhances human relationships

39. Your Attitude is Influenced by society culture religious background
Needs to be flexibly enough to allow for differences

40. Take Charge of your attitude, Don’t let someone else Choose it for you
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41. Ethnocentrism
When an individual views his/her ethnic group and/or social standards as being superior to others.

42. Eating

43. Slurping Soup

44. Greeting

45. Clothing

46. Death
U.S. & Europe – Wear Black
India & China wear white for funerals

47. Showing Respect

48. Belching

49. Eye Contact

50. Clapping

51. Body Decoration

52. Critical Thinking
Introduction

53. Example 1: Japanese Bathe

54. Example 2: Hawaiian Dress