CCP 103 - Critical Thinking and Decision Making

Question 1

What is the difference between “Thinking” and “Critical Thinking”?

Answer 1

• Role of intuition, perception, and interpretation in learning
• How prior knowledge and habit affects our learning
• How we construct knowledge (and store, retrieve and apply it)
• How emotions and cognition impact our actions (and how not to commit cognitive errors)
• Benefiting from reflection, feedback, metacognition

Question 2

What is RPD decision making?

Answer 2

• A process where by having seen and experienced a situation before you can draw conclusions on the end result
• Can be initiated through brainstorming, simulation, or hands on practice

Question 3

What is System 1/System 2 decision making?

Answer 3

• System 1: Rapid/based on previous knowledge and experience/Heuristic/Pattern recognition
• System 2: Slow/deliberate/hypothetical-deductive/analytical/relies on memory