Organization and Critical Thinking

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Examines psychologist Adler in discussing the concept of information organization and selection, enumerates the process an individual goes through in ordering information, which is a vital process in critical thinking. This paper discusses the process of selecting and organizing/ordering of information and observations and its role in critical thought.

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"An appropriate example to illustrate the distinction between nature and mental orders is through the Eleanor Rosch's study on real-life concepts. In this study, Rosch identifies how, because of nature and mental orders, people have varying or diverse interpretations of a particular concept or construct. A "cup", for example, is a construct that may be interpreted through the experiential (nature) or theoretical (mental) orders. Thus, in the experiential domain, "cup" is identified as a material used for "holding solids and liquids", while its mental construct may be interpreted as an object used as either a "concrete" or "concave" objects (Santrock, 2001:258). Through nature and mental orders, individuals are able to identify clearly and think critically about the nature of a particular concept or construct."

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