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4. Discuss five concepts that are impediments to critical thinking
Our image of the world is based on our senses and what we read, however sometimes the
information we depend on to give us an accurate description of the world can be distorted.
This
hazy view of the world impacts our critical thinking practice.
Such messages as advertisements
that say the right car, clothes, perfume etc, will bring happiness or the mate of your choice is a
challenge to our critical thinking process. Or so called “Reality T.V.” that displays glamorous
lifestyles and easy living driven by simple solutions of course after some critical thinking we
realize in these supposedly real life programs a camera crew is must be following the
participants.
Sometimes when situations are very complicated our brain reacts in a primal way. This survival
tool may have been necessary in an earlier time however is an impediment to critical thinking in
our modern era is. Us v them, all or nothing and other stereotypical thinking is a way our brain
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