Thinking and Decision Making Paper
Learning Team B
MGT/350 Critical Thinking: Strategies in Decision Making
Donna Rumrill, Eboni High, Portia Mack, Wesley Wendtland
February 12, 2012
Instructor Michelle Malone
Thinking and Decision Making 2 Decisions will have to be made as people go through life. In some cases, our decisions are big and then there are some cases where our decisions are small. When making decisions, there is a process that a person goes through. There are different types of thinking styles and thought processes. The way someone feels, believes, attitude, and associate ideas can contribute to their thinking style. There are numerous thinking styles and methods of thinking which usually makes thought processes individualized to where people think and make decisions differently. This paper will discuss and analyze three different types of thinking styles. The thinking styles that will be discussed in this paper are the persuasive, scientific and the pessimistic thinking style. This paper will compare and contrast the three different styles and discuss how each affects the critical thinking process. This paper will also incorporate critical thinking to the decision making process by including the discussion on workplace examples that involve the three different types of thinking styles. Scientific thinking is a type of inductive thinking that moves through four major steps: observation, hypothesis formulation, experimentation and verification (Kirby & Goodpaster, 2007). This method of thinking is usually used by individuals in medicine to come to terms with why a particular situation has happened. Persuasion means influencing someone to accept our
