The learner will identify ways to overcome barriers to critical thinking and problem-solving including false memories, personal biases and prejudices, and physical and emotional hindrances.

This activity will examine several of the barriers related to problems with communication.

The learners will explore the Errors in Judgment: Barriers to Critical Thinking and how it affects their decision-making processes.

The learner will identify barriers to critical thinking related to internal and external factors after viewing scenarios.

Students listen to three telephone messages and enter their evaluation of each one. They then read a list of guidelines for leaving effective messages.

Learners read the definitions of an assumption and a fact. They then provide their own examples of each and compare those to the examples provided.

Learners examine how language can interfere with clear communication. They select examples of ambiguity, assuring expressions, doublespeak euphemisms, jargon, emotive content, false implications, meaningless comparisons, and vagueness. In an interactive exercise, learners identify ways to overcome these barriers.

In this interactive object, learners follow six steps for analyzing a process in a manufacturing setting. This activity includes a drag-and-drop exercise and textboxes where learners post their ideas.

Learners watch a commercial for a fictitious product and pose questions to challenge the assumptions made in it.

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