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Enhancing Decision Making through Critical Thinking

This document contains information about a critical thinking and problem solving course at Kenyatta University School of Law for the 2023/2024 academic year. It lists the course code, title, instructor, and 10 students enrolled in group 10. It then discusses how critical thinking enhances decision making and problem solving by enabling logical reasoning, analyzing information objectively, and making informed choices based on facts rather than biases or emotions. Critical thinking allows one to better organize and manage knowledge to solve problems by clearly identifying the problem, considering multiple solutions, gathering relevant information, choosing the best solution, implementing a plan, and reflecting on the results.

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Enhancing Decision Making through Critical Thinking

This document contains information about a critical thinking and problem solving course at Kenyatta University School of Law for the 2023/2024 academic year. It lists the course code, title, instructor, and 10 students enrolled in group 10. It then discusses how critical thinking enhances decision making and problem solving by enabling logical reasoning, analyzing information objectively, and making informed choices based on facts rather than biases or emotions. Critical thinking allows one to better organize and manage knowledge to solve problems by clearly identifying the problem, considering multiple solutions, gathering relevant information, choosing the best solution, implementing a plan, and reflecting on the results.

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SCHOOL: KENYATTA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW.

YEAR: 2023/2024.

UNIT CODE: UCU 111.

UNIT TITLE: CRITICAL THINKING AND PROBLEM SOLVING.


(GROUP 10)
BY: [Link] OYIGO.
GROUP 10 MEMBERS
NAME ADMISSION NUMBER SIGN
MYRA WAMBUI NDEGWA L95S/15239/2023
NDUNDA CATHERINE MWENDE L95S/15246/2023
MELODY NYAWIRA NGARI L95S/15260/2023
KEMUNTO FAITH MAUTI L95S/15390/2023
DEBORAH NEKESA SIMIYU L95S/15433/2023
MORAA NYANCHOKA L95S/15237/2023
SCHIFFER NYAKORA L95S/15534/2023
LITALA PATIENCE KHASANDI L95S/15537/2023
VITALICE MATILDA MARGARET L95S/15571/2023.
JANICE WAMBUI WANJIRU L95S/15586/2023
HOW CRITICAL THINKING ENHANCES A PERSONS
DECISION MAKING AND PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS
Critical thinking enhances logical reasoning, analytical skills and
an open mindset enabling people to avoid having congenital
biasness and help one to effectively evaluate information and
making informative choices. Being a critical thinker enables you
to go beyond intuition and your own emotions so as to make
well informed decisions based on facts and evidence. Critical
thinking enhances ones logical thinking and [Link] makes
one know the underline assumptions, evaluating arguments
logically And assessing probability and its tolerant factors
therefore making thoughtful choices under pressure or
ambiguity among others.

Critical thinking has been attributed to better decision making


through the management and organization of [Link]
management of knowledge we need to understand that there
is a difference between knowledge and information since
knowledge involves the understanding of and information
.Management of knowledge is critical when it comes to
decision making and problem solving .this can be best
explained from a mathematical set up from easy questions such
as [Link] starts by asking themselves what the question
is asking ,why and how one is supposed to go about it .this
systematic arrangements enables one to tackle the question.
The same can be applied to our day to day lives. We need to
ask ourselves the question of what, why and how for
appropriate and effective decision making and problem solving.

Some decisions are usually insignificant while others requires


one to make hard decisions .Through critical thinking one needs
to be a normative thinker and realize that they have to focus
and devote themselves to their own logical reasoning so that
they may be able to observe the outcome of what they will
choose over a period of time and will help them reach a
conclusion of a choice that is beneficial.

In problem solving one first need to identify what the problem


is .thinking critically enables one to see if there is any ,therefore
fully understanding the problem that needs to be [Link]
evaluating a problem one can deliberate possible solutions and
gather relevant facts about an issue to solve any problem that
they may encounter .from the collected data one can choose
the most suitable le solution to generate plans to solve the
problems .after carrying out the plan ,a critical thinker will
reflect on the consequences of their actions and see if they
would take that same root if the same problem ever occurred
again

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