Chapter 2 Worksheet for: Alfaro-LeFevre, R. (2020) Critical Thinking, Clinical Reasoning, and Clinical Judgment: A Practical Approach, 7th Ed. (http://www.alfaroteachsmart.com/books.html) 
 
becoming a critical thinker

This chapter at a glance….

Learning to read your own mind
Five key steps
How your personality affects thinking
Connecting with your learning style
Self-efficacy: Believe in yourself
Effects of birth order, upbringing, and culture
Generational Differences
Applying Principles of Emotional Intelligence
Communicating effectively
Communication strategies
Building relationships
Factors influencing critical thinking ability
Personal Factors Affecting Thinking
Situational Factors Affecting Thinking
Habits Causing Barriers to Critical Thinking
Habits Promoting Critical Thinking
Focusing on outcomes (Results)
Goals (Intent) Versus Outcomes (Results)
Critical thinking strategies
Ten Main Questions
Using Logic, Intuition, and Trial and Error
Focusing on the Big Picture and the Details
Drawing Maps, Diagrams, and Decision Trees
Other useful strategies
Knowledge and intellectual skills CTIs
Reflecting on thinking—Asking for feedback

Learning outcomes

After completing this chapter, you should be able to:

1.	Summarize five key steps to becoming a critical thinker.
2.	Explain why having self-efficacy is central to developing critical thinking.
3.	Address how personality, learning style, upbringing, culture and generational differences affect thinking.
4.	Identify strategies to make the most of emotional intelligence.
5.	Explain why building trust in relationships, and following a code of conduct are key to promoting critical thinking.
6.	Summarize personal and situational factors that affect reasoning. 
7.	Name at least 3 habits that promote critical thinking and 3 that impede critical thinking
8.	Explain the relationship between goals and outcomes. 
9.	Describe how critical thinking relates to logic, intuition, and trial and error.
10.	Evaluate your progress toward knowledge and intellectual CTIs.
Key concepts

bias; prejudice; code of conduct; emotional intelligence; goals; intuition; logic self-efficacy; systems thinking. See also previous chapter.