Categories

•  Analytical Reasoning Skills
  •   Categorizing

  •   Classifying

  •   Comparing and Contrasting

  •   Criteria Setting

  •   Determining Cause and Effect

  •   Discriminating Between Same and Different

  •   Identifying Characteristics

  •   Making an Observation

  •   Making Analogies

  •   Predicting

  •   Ranking Prioritizing, and Sequencing

  •   Recognizing Attributes

  •   Seeing Relationships

•  Creativity Skills
  •   Attribute Listing

  •   Brainstorming (2)

  •  Creative Problem Solving
    •   Synectics

  •   Flexibility

  •   Fluency

  •   Imagery

  •   Originality

  •   Random Input

  •   SCAMPER modification techniques (4)

•  Critical Thinking Skills
  •   Deductive Thinking

  •   Detecting Inconsistencies

  •   Determinign the accuracy of presented information

  •   Determining Benefits and Drawback

  •   Determining Bias

  •   Determining Reality and Fantasy

  •   Determining Relevance

  •   Determining Warranted and Unwarranted Claims

  •   Identifying Ambiguity

  •   Identifying Exaggeration

  •   Identifying Missing Information

  •   Identifying Point of View

  •   Identifying Value Statements

  •   Inductive Thinking

  •   Judging Essential and Incidental Evidence

  •   Judging the Credibility of a Source

  •   Recognizing Assumptions

  •   Recognizing Fallacies

•  Organizational Thinking Skills (1)
  •   Decision Making

  •   Developing Hypotheses

  •   Formulating Questions

  •   Goal Setting

  •   Memory

  •   Metacognition

  •   Planning

  •   Problem Solving

  •   Summarizing

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