Why Do You Believe Inhibit Your Learning Process?

There are several factors that have and still do influence on my own individual learning process. However some have impacted greater than others and they are as followed:

Identify three hindrances to the critical thinking process. Determine methods for overcoming these hindrances. Identify a time in which you experienced a hindrance in critical thinking. Describe a method you could use to overcome the hindrances.

From an early age, it is drilled into our heads: Restlessness, distraction, and ignorance are the enemies of success. We’re told that learning is all self-discipline, that we must confine ourselves to designated study areas, turn off the music, and maintain a strict ritual if we want to ace that test, memorize that presentation, and create writing assignment.

Our understanding of why flawed decisions are so common comes from work done by neuroscientists and decision scientists to understand how the brain works when faced with a set of circumstances that require a decision (Finkelstein, S., Whitehead, J., & Campbell, A. (2009).

Voltaire once said, “No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking” (“Voltaire Quotes”) What Voltaire intended to convey was that extensive and critical thinking can allow people to arrive at rational solutions to problems. This is one of the reasons why the significance of thinking critically has become a popular issue that is discussed about in educational systems nowadays. It is imperative that students develop critical thinking skills and not just blindly be taught what to think, but rather how to think. Pure memorization will not lead to authentic learning; instead, encouraging critical thinking is what will help students evaluate problems and make reasonable decisions. As humans are susceptible to emotions, critical

In this manner a learning approach gets rid of that circle pattern of thinking and tries to self defeat these behaviors. The third contribution is "A wide range of practical applications" you can apply the learning perspective to an everyday life. Whether at home at school at the work place anywhere. To adjust these life styles you can use something like goals by setting a specific goal, that is challenging but achievable, and in terms of what you want not avoiding what you don't want. This helps people to learn to change bad habits and take better care of themselves.

Consciously Incompetent – The first step in any learning process is to identify what we need to learn.

Metacognition refers to higher order thinking which involves active control over the cognitive processes engaged in learning. This process of thinking allows for one to learn on one’s own as “the most effective self-learners are self- regulating” (Taylor). Furthermore, numerous studies

Another type of hindrance to the critical thinking process would be Assumption. This method would be assuming information about a situation or even prejudging without actually thinking about all possibilities before making your decision. The best way to avoid this hindrance would be to not prejudge anything and use your knowledge and critical thinking to base your final decision.

Whenever we think “I have already known”, we have actually closed our minds from learning any new ideas.

One of the big ones that I struggle with is "look at simple cases and build up; uncover patterns as you go" (pg. 41). I have a bad habit of my life of looking at a hard problem until I have left myself frustrated. It can be easy to spend so much time dwelling on a difficult problem that you lose productivity and burn yourself out. It is important to walk away and find something less challenge to work on in between. Another thing along these

Can anyone really make a truly logical and well thought out decision? In the discussions about decision making, it is controversial whether taking time to make a well thought out decision is worth the extra effort or is it just a waste of time. Our brains give us the ability to think unconsciously, which prohibits us from having the ability to make logical, well-thought out decisions, especially in a short period of time. Some people believe that in a long period of time logical and well-thought out decisions can be made, but our decisions have still shown to be considerably similar to our instant decisions. We can rarely overpower our unconscious beliefs and decisions because of our tendency to thinslice, make unconscious judgements, and allow

My anti-thinking habit is strategic ambivalence. It affects me in all aspects of my life as student, as a RA, as a teacher, and in my personal life. I can come up with really good lesson plans or activities but then I become unsure in the process of carrying out those activities and then I start over. This is a problem because the time I waste being uncertain and starting over. As a teacher my time will become valuable and limited. I will not have the luxury to start something over half way though because I am unsure that it will work, or I am undecided because maybe I wanted to do the other activity.

I researched Neuroscience. The study of the brain. In doing my research I learned that the United States government is putting more and more money into the study of Neuroscience because they want to find out how to stop dementia or Alzheimer’s or even to figure out if there are ways to prevent psychosis. Research has been happening on the brain since the early Renaissance era. “Anatomists declared with great authority that our perceptions, emotions, reasoning, and actions were all the result of "animal spirits." In the1700’s a british physician by the name of Thomas Willis was able to disprove the theory of the animal spirit controlling your brain. He studied the brains of animals and even deceased patients to see what the brain looked like

The first article titled “Becoming a Critic Of Your Thinking”, focuses on the different strategies and ways your mind can “work to discipline itself” and challenge your thinking. Good thinking ultimately leads you to being prepared and avoiding