- Curiosity: Drives critical thinking by encouraging questions, exploration, and the search for explanations.
- Openness: Supports critical thinking by welcoming new ideas and different perspectives.
- Self-awareness: Helps identify personal biases, leading to more objective analysis.
- Questioning: Encourages deeper inquiry, clarification, and testing of information.
- Analysis and evaluation: Breaks down, compares, and assesses information to separate facts from opinions.
- Reasoning: Links ideas logically and helps draw consistent conclusions.
- Reflection: Promotes reviewing and improving one’s own reasoning process.
- Problem-solving: Applies critical thinking to analyse problems and evaluate possible solutions.
- Decision-making: Uses critical thinking to make thoughtful, well-informed choices.
- Creativity: Generates original ideas, which critical thinking evaluates and refines.
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