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Critical Thinking: Overcoming Barriers Matrix Identify 6 barriers to critical thinking listed in your text. You may use the barriers you already identified in your Week 1 assignment to get you started or choose new ones. Enter the barriers in the first column of the table below. Provide an example from your personal, professional, or school life for each of the 6 barriers you choose. You may use the examples from your Week 1 assignment or choose new ones. Enter the examples from your life in the second column of the table below. Explain in 2- to 3-sentences how you can overcome each barrier you identified. Think about what you might do to overcome that barrier in that situation. Consider if that strategy or method would be useful in another situation. Enter your explanation in the third column of the table below. Note : The first row has been completed for you as an example. Barrier to Critical Thinking Example How You Can Overcome the Barrier Example barrier to critical thinking: Cognitive dissonance Example from your life: I have an opportunity for promotion and raise in salary at work, but the job requires more time commitment so I would be unable to continue my education right now. Example strategy for overcoming the barrier: I can overcome my cognitive dissonance by comparing short- and long-term advantages and disadvantages. I am going to school to improve my career opportunities and earn more money for my family; the promotion would give me more money now but going to school improves my career prospects long- term. While this promotion does not require a college degree, future promotions would, so I would decide to decline the promotion and continue my college education. Denial Example from my professional: I have encountered with clients that are presented with facts and still believe they are right about the situation without any evidence. To overcome this barrier I believe that you need to adjust to being open minded and being able to review the facts. Anger Example from my professional: I have reacted with emotions first and has clouded my critcial thinking and didn't help my situation at all and sometimes made it worse. I can overcome this barrier to critical thinking by having being able to think about I speak, and using critcial thinking to turn my anger into something positive. Distractions Example from my personal: I tend to get distracted by things in my life that wont help me grow as a person and has clouded what I want as a person. I can overcome this barrier to critical thinking by being able to eliminate distractions that won't help me grow as a person. Closed minded Example from my personal: I I can overcome this barrier to critical thinking by

tend to believe everything I'm being told by people that are close to me and don't follow up on the facts. being able to research the facts that I'm being told and being able to have an opinon for myself and not just believe what I'm told. Group bias Example from my professional: I have in past at work have believed my coworkers because I have trusted them and don't do the research myself. I can overcome this barrier to critical thinking by being able to think for myself and research facts that I'm being told. Being able to voice your opinon that will help. Emotional Example from my professional: People will sometimes try to take advantage of my emotions but I have to use my critical thinking to use the facts in front of me. I can overcome this barrier to critical thinking by being to show empathy for the client but also being able to keep a openmind to help my critical thinking.

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