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MGT 315
CREATIVE AND CRITICAL
THINKING
CHAPTER 1
Thinking skills
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
INTRODUCTION
DEFINE THINKING SKILLS
Student will be able to define thinking skills
 Student will learn the types of thinking skills
 Students will be able to learn the importance of
thinking skills
 Student will be able to examine the thinking
tools and ways to implement it.
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TYPES OF THINKING SKILLS
Critical
thinking
• A thorough evaluation
and very careful
judgment for instance
judging the likelihood of
product or services
Thinking skills is where an information is
process by using cognitive ability skill and
making meaning from it.
 In order for a person to effectively process the
information , one can be taught a specific
metacognitive strategies.
 Metacognitive strategies involve activities such
as planning how to approach a given learning
task and monitoring comprehension.
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IMPORTANCE OF THINKING SKILLS
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Creative
thinking
Help individual to find a clear goal or
solution
Help to develop a systematic planning
Reasoning
• Innovative, unique and
novelty ideas which are
able to put things
together in new and
different ways.
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THINKING TOOLS
Plus, Minus, Interesting (Edward de Bono)
CAF (Consider all factors)
 C& S (Consequences & Sequal)
 AGO (Aims, Goal , Objectives)
 FIP (First important priorities)
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PLUS, MINUS, Interesting (PMI Table)
C&S (CONSEQUENCES & SEQUAL)
Predicting consequences and effects
Anticipatory thinking
 Short term effect
 Mid term effect
 Long term effect
CAF (CONSIDER ALL FACTORS)
AGO (AIMS, GOAL , OBJECTIVES)
Focus on aims, goal and objective
Focus thinking
 Understand the other people if we know their
AGO
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FIP (FIRST IMPORTANT PRIORITIES)
Priority first
Selecting the most important factor
 Eliminate the least important factor
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SUMMARY
Human is said to only use portion of its brain
capability.
 Human can actually boost their brain capability
by understanding specific types of thinking, how
they work, and practicing the various type of
thinking skills.
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REFERENCES
EXERCISE
BEAN HEAD
You are required to find
a man’s head in this
photo
De Bono, E. (1990). Six thinking hats. London: Penguin
Michalko, M. (1998). Cracking creativity . Berkeley: Ten Speed
De Bono, E. (2005). De Bono’s thinking Course . Barnes & Noble Books; Revised edition (2005)
Vincent Ryan Ruggiero, Critical Thinking: Supplement to Becoming a Master Student, Houghton
Mifflin Company, Rapid City, Michigan, 1993.
If you can find the man’s head within 3
seconds, then your right brain is more
developed than normal people.
 If you can find the man’s head within 1
minute, then your right brain is developing
normally
 If it takes you longer than 1 minute, then
your left brain is more developed than
normal.
 If you still can’t find it, then try looking in
the lower part of the picture, between the
left side and the middle.
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If you still can’t find it, then I
suggest you make an
appointment with your
optometrist.
CONCLUSION
Creativity demands that we should
approach a problem on its own terms
and look for a multiplicity of ways of
looking at it and a multiplicity of
ways of solving it.
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