Communication role in critical thinking is language which is to expressing an issue. A
personal example I have is when my son was a baby and could not talk, I had to look at his
body language to determine what was wrong and why he would cry all night. This was
definitely putting my critical thinking skills to work.The most interesting assignment was
taking the quiz and finding out that my communication style is passive communication.
Emotions are key in critical thinking and communication. But, like anything else, too much
could be a bad thing. I believe emotion should be used in making decisions but not to the
point where emotion takes over and you possibly make the wrong decision or come to the
wrong conclusion. Balancing emotion and reason are very important. In my line of work I
can come across these situations often and it’s important to make the right decision. We may
be working a case that say involves children and you must sometimes take emotion out of
your thinking in order to do what is best for the children involved. This proves that both are
key to making decisions but the right amount of each are very important. Communication
can be difficult sometimes this day in age. With so much done over the internet or social
media it make it difficult to have effective communication. When you talk about
communication in critical thinking it is important for everyone to be on the same page and
make sure the communication is clear and concise. This way everybody has the chance to
put in their opinion and the right decision can be made for everyone involved. I really liked
that this week showed and talked about the important factor of emotion in critical thinking.
Emotion is a good thing overall. But, it can also detour you from the best and most logical
way to make a decision and therefore possibly hurt people in the process. Keeping emotion
in critical thinking is important. More so, learning how to imply the right amount of emotion
could be even more. Emotions can influence your critical thinking thoughts by getting in the
way or pushing you to conclusion that may have been hard to get to without emotions. If
you have unresolved issues from your past you may react according to that. It is best to
analyze the way you are ACTUALLY feeling and be able to heal and then make sound
decisions. Your thoughts and feelings can push you to react in certain ways and those are all
connected to your emotions.As I have talked about in week 1 I have recently transitioned
roles within my company and I have had to do a lot of critical thinking to make these
decisions. Along with that there has been a lot of emotion tied to my decision making and I
have had to step back and make sure I am not making rash, vulnerable or quick decisions
because I am mad, upset, betrayed or feel like I am being overlooked. The reason I made the
decision in the end was because I am going to better and advance my career.Language and
communication can influence your critical thinking in an interesting way that I have never
looked at before. If you speak directive or expressive, emotive or ceremonial. It can all
affect how your decision turns out. You can also be speaking without using actual words and
how you are being portrayed to other people.I think the most interesting thing that I had not
thought about was that that emotions can influence your critical thinking decision. I thought
you took emotion out completely when you were critically thinking. But after the reading it
was made clear that even if you are trying to take emotion out that it is still going to have
emotion that is positive or negative as apart of your decision. Emotions are part of everyday
life, and can play a huge role in making rash decisions. This determines how we control our
emotions, and can determine if we can be successful or not. We need to ensure that we
balance our when thinking critically. When we allow our emotions to run crazy then our
critically thinking does not go right. We have to make sure that we recognize our emotions
and thinking so that we can have balanced behavior. We have to use critical thinking in our
lives every day, especially since we are on lock down to keep this virus away. We have to
think before we just want to run out and go shopping since we are bored. I stay in a lot more
any ways since I have a low immune system. My husband like to go out and I just have to
think about this and explain it in ways that will make him understand so I have to use critical
thinking in every situation. With this week’s learning I have learned more about
communication and critical thinking can be difficult but you just have to use your emotions
the right way. There are positive and negative emotions when it comes to critical thinking.
Emotion can positively influence critical thinking by having empathy for others. it can
negatively influence critical thinking by our capabilities become lessen. I balance my
emotions and reason by always doing what need to be done. Sometimes I may be stress out
but I still have to go to work and keep a clean house. Communication and critical thinking
are linked. The activity I enjoyed this week was the questionnaire in communication styles.
It was interesting to find out what type of communicator I was. Emotions are very prevalent
in most people’s lives because we are human and humans are typically emotional beings. As
we discussed last week, critical thinking is also something people use all of the time in their
lives; add those two together, and emotion is definitely going to have some effect on critical
thinking. According to Ch. 3 of THiNK: Critical Thinking and Logic Skills for Everyday
Life, emotion can have either hinder decision making or assist in making a strong decision
for the best outcome. Emotions can positively influence by giving you a way of seeing
things from all angles and having sympathy for others, emotions can negatively influence if
you have intensely strong feelings one way or the other which clouds your judgment from
seeing the full picture.I am, by nature, a very emotional person. I have been deemed the
empath within my family and friends. I am constantly ensuring the needs of everyone are
taken care of well before mine, I feel what my people go through and I literally feel like I go
through much of it with them. Because of these emotions I constantly feel, emotion is a large
part of the decisions I make on an everyday basis. For example, a decision I have made with
emotion; it was a weekend and I had a lot on my plate in my personal life to take care of (a
doctor appointment, a grocery store trip, a workout planned, organizing me week) but my
mother asked me to come home for the weekend because she missed me. Did I go?
Absolutely I did, because I knew she had been missing me and feeling bad. Did I think
things through reasonably? Probably not, because I set myself behind for the upcoming
week by not taking care of things I needed to take care of, but at least my mom was happy.
On the other hand, a decision that I did make reasonably; my fiancé and I were redoing our
home and spending what felt like 100% of our money and attention on the house and these
projects. I wanted so desperately to take a day off and go do something else, go to the cities
for a nice dinner, maybe shop a little bit. I had to use my reasoning skills in order to make
the appropriate decision to continue to work on the house while I had the motivation, which
helped in the long run because it got it done faster and now we have all the time in the world
to do other things.Chapter three of the textbook brings up interesting points that I had not
really broken down before. There are many different styles of communication; assertive,
aggressive, passive, and passive aggressive. It is interesting because each of us are very
different in the way we communicate and which forms of communication we best
understand. I am definitely passive aggressive when I communicate; I am very low key
when I communicate my own feelings and quiet but I tend to show my emotions on my face.
I have learned to use communication in my critical thinking processes while working a job
directly with people. I have to read people and work with individuals that have a variety of
learning and intellectual disabilities who have incredibly unique forms of communication. A
lot of the time when I am at work I need to think about the specific individual I am working
with and what their signs and non-verbal communication is pointing to, and make a decision
based on that.After the learning activities this week and reading through the textbook
chapters, the most interesting to me was actually the definitions section. It was interesting to
me because I have never really thought very in-depth at all about definitions of words;
lexical (dictionary definition, defined), stipulative (definition given to a new term of a
word), connotative and denotative meanings, etc. It is also interesting to know that the
English language is such a huge language with a quarter of a million words, many of them
having different meanings. Positive and negative emotions both play important roles in
everyday life. These emotions serve an adaptive role in our lives by motivating us to act
quickly and take actions that will maximize our chances of survival and success. Sometimes
I feel like I don't balance my emotions well. Unfortunately because of certain events in life I
have had a tough time balancing emotions, however getting older I have somewhat learned
to balance as much as I think I can. My dad and twin sister died 6 years part and for a long
time I blamed myself for not being able to do more. I would become overwhelmed with
emotions and cry all the time. But as time as been going I have learned how to balance my
emotions and even more my thoughts. I learned to step back , breath, and release. Effective
communication requires clarity of thought, ability to listen intentionally and deliver
messages in the optimal way. Communication has not been my best skill. However, once I
signed up for school I have had to step out of my comfort zone and learn how to
communicate with my peers and professors. I'm still very uncomfortable but it's a learning
process. All the activities for the week where informative and I enjoyed doing the activity
after the short videos. Emotions effect any decision we make. If the situation is a distressing
one your critical thinking can be skewed to be negative, because your emotions are negative
at that time. For example, you were just in an argument with a friend and an employer calls
to ask about your friend’s character, but your negative emotions are blocking you from
thinking critically. Positive emotions help you to rationalize a situation in an understanding
way and come to a decision, allowing you to think critically and not in a bias way.Balancing
reason and emotion can be difficult depending on the situation. Reason is making a decision
based on facts and knowledge, whereas emotions involve how you feel whether its fear,
happiness, or anger. When a situation occurs in my life I try to see it from both sides, look
for a reason for the problem and try to keep my emptions neutral, though that can be hard at
times depending on who, what, when, and why. For example, during this Covid-19 I have a
choice either to reschedule my wedding plans or keep them as planned for August.
Emotionally I want my wedding to happen in August, I put in so much work and I am ready
to just have everything done, but I stop and reason with myself, the safety of my family and
friends matter first and rescheduling is the right thing to do.Communication provides us with
the necessary tool to effectively think critically. In critical thinking communication allows
you to make decisions, research, analyze, and problem solve when needed. In the field I
work in I have to use directive language daily. I have to be able to evaluate performance and
give the appropriate solutions without conflict. At times it can be difficult, because an older
person taking direct commands from me who is much younger, can be a bit off putting and I
have experienced backlash because of that. The older person feels as if they should not take
orders from me. I have to make the decision to either reprimand or let it go. I use critical
thinking to figure out how I can communicate with this person, so they understand this is a
job and we all have a part to play. I believe I have good communication skills, which help
me make necessary decisions.I would say learning the different functions of language was
interesting to me, because I pride myself on having good communication skills and learning
the different languages adds to knowledge to understand certain situations. I think we all go
through a mix of emotions in our everyday critical thinking. In my experience I have found
that positive emotions when making a decision allow us to make more rationale decisions.
This is because if we have positive emotions when making decisions we tend to put more
thought into our decisions, the end result of this is more wiser decisions. In contrast negative
emotions may discourage us into thinking through our decision, and we end up making poor
decisions . An example would be trying to make a rational decision when we are angry .
When we are angry I think people tend to shut out critical thinking all together , and are
quick make decisions without all the facts.Emotion can greatly impact our decision making
because I feel if we put to much emotion in our decision making we end up making
decisions based more upon our feelings towards the topic instead of using the facts that lead
to a wiser decision. I feel our decisions need to be firm , and built with confidence. So I try
to balance my emotion and reason in my decision making by thinking of what the desired
outcome is in my decision making. For me I have a hard time letting emotion take over
some of my decisions with my 3 year old toddler. I think this is a form of emootive language
use to manipulate my decision. For example , if I am asking her to pick up her toys. She will
pout , fuss and make cute little sad faces at me . She melts my heart then I start to feel guilty
, and want to give in and just pick them up for her, but I have to stop myself and think , ok
if let my emotion take over we will not reach the ultimate goal of teaching her she has to
clean up her mess when she is done playing. This then makes me stronger and a wiser
decision is made.The role of communication in critical thinking , both verbal and non verbal
, are very important in making the most informative and logical decision. Communication
conveys the message or facts that should be used to make a decision. For this reason it is
very important we are provided all the information needed to make the decision, and as the
receiver, listening is an important part of communication so that we collect the correct
information. An example for me would be when I was speaking to my wifi company to
decide if I wanted to upgrade my wifi speed. There was a language barrier , the
representative had a very deep accent so I could not understand the information he was
trying to give me as far as pricing. Pricing is a crucial piece of information that I needed to
make that decision. Due to this gap in communication I was unable to make the decision that
day. I decided to call back another time and speak to someone else. Emotions also played a
role in this because I became very frustrated.In this weeks topic the topic I found most
interesting is on verbal communication . Because body language can say so much , and
convey messages even without words , but at the same time they can be a form of
manipulation because you can smile at someone which sends one message, but the real
emotion can be the complete opposite. I think at times we all put on what is called a " fake
smile" , for this reason this form of communication is not always clear. Emotions are a part
of everyday life the positive critical thinking mindset help me think deeply about my
justification and evidence for and against a given choices that I must make. Negative critical
thinking is a thought-out process where I think to find the worst in my decisions. Negative
thinking is also no begin critical or criticizing.Emotions can affect not just nature of
decisions but the speed in which I make my decisions. When I am angry it can lead to me
impatience, and very rash decision-making. Like when I’m feeling afraid my decisions are
clouded and I just got with my first mindset. When I’m thinking positive my decisions are
not make so rapidly and I think though my decisions .Critical thinking help us when it
comes to responding the correct way in given context before reacting. When it comes to
communication listening plays a very important role. Like when I call to pay my bills the
reps on the phone I couldn't understand her because of her language I got upset as asked to
speak to someone different. I would say is nonverbal language because with me most of
people always try to figure me out by my body language or tone of voice, when interpreting
someone’s communication. Critical thinking is a trait not everyone has, but should posses.
Emotions are something everyone has, but doesn't always want. There are many reasons as
to how emotions can influence someones critical thinking skills positively or negatively. If
you have to make a decision on something your emotions do not agree with, some may not
make the decision at all, and some may make the wrong one due to their emotional
involvement.In a situation where my emotions and my reason do not align, i try to look at
both aspects of the decision i make, with emotion or without. Some instances you have to be
biased, and exclude your emotions to make the best choice for every party involved. As a
hostess, you have to make a decision about where to seat a big party. If the next server in
rotation only has seating for a party of two and a party of eight comes in you have to work
around that person. Even when you know they need to money, and the table, you have to put
your emotions aside to seat the incoming guests in the correct place.
