On the first day of Introductory Philosophy class, Nora asks her students to provide a definition of the term critical thinking. Having aced Introductory Psychology last semester, Cassie knows that critical thinking is ____.?
a. ?a specific, testable proposition about something under study
b. ?the process of assessing claims and making judgments on the basis of well-supported evidence
c. ?a cognitive response reliant on heuristics that allows a person to draw reasonable conclusions
d. ?the process of describing the exact operations or methods a scientist will use in a research study
ANSWER:
b
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