Thinking and Decision Making
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Thinking and Decision Making
MGT 350: Critical Thinking: Strategies In Decision Making
October 2008
Thinking and Decision Making
Thinking is one part of human life that is very difficult to defined, even though it is the most important aspect of human lives used for absorbing and processing data every day, experts according to Kirby and Goodpaster (2007) could not even define it. Thinking is a process that receives input, processes the input and then produces some sort of output. Thinking is defined as “the activity of the brain that can potentially be communicated” (Kirby & Goodpaster, 2007, p 6). The brain is the controlling center of human mind, it is processor that receives the input and then produces the output (Kirby & Goodpaster, 2007). Thinking was analyzed by Kirby and Goodpaster (2007) as the process by which human brain listens, observes, reads and transforms them into speaking, acting and writing. In my mind, the human mind is constantly thinking because humans are always acting, either physically or emotionally and these are by product of some thoughts in human mind. There are various types of thinking and we will observe them in detail in the next section. Decision making is another aspect of human life that depends solely of our thinking capabilities, when one are faced with a challenge and need to make a decision as to which option is most viable one has to think to come up with that option. This leads us to the definition for decision making, which is the process of choice making when one acts. Making decision is not always an easy thing, people are usually faced with challenges like “fear, lack of knowledge, confusion and conflict of values” (Kirby & Goodpaster, 2007, p 321), which makes decision making very difficult and sometime lead to misthinking.
Type of thinking
Thinking is very important when it comes to the point reasoning and finding a resolution to an issue, and there are...
Thinking and Decision Making
MGT 350: Critical Thinking: Strategies In Decision Making
October 2008
Thinking and Decision Making
Thinking is one part of human life that is very difficult to defined, even though it is the most important aspect of human lives used for absorbing and processing data every day, experts according to Kirby and Goodpaster (2007) could not even define it. Thinking is a process that receives input, processes the input and then produces some sort of output. Thinking is defined as “the activity of the brain that can potentially be communicated” (Kirby & Goodpaster, 2007, p 6). The brain is the controlling center of human mind, it is processor that receives the input and then produces the output (Kirby & Goodpaster, 2007). Thinking was analyzed by Kirby and Goodpaster (2007) as the process by which human brain listens, observes, reads and transforms them into speaking, acting and writing. In my mind, the human mind is constantly thinking because humans are always acting, either physically or emotionally and these are by product of some thoughts in human mind. There are various types of thinking and we will observe them in detail in the next section. Decision making is another aspect of human life that depends solely of our thinking capabilities, when one are faced with a challenge and need to make a decision as to which option is most viable one has to think to come up with that option. This leads us to the definition for decision making, which is the process of choice making when one acts. Making decision is not always an easy thing, people are usually faced with challenges like “fear, lack of knowledge, confusion and conflict of values” (Kirby & Goodpaster, 2007, p 321), which makes decision making very difficult and sometime lead to misthinking.
Type of thinking
Thinking is very important when it comes to the point reasoning and finding a resolution to an issue, and there are...