Critical thinking plays a crucial role in our everyday life. People apprehend any information analyzing it using the filters of life experience, background knowledge, and the informational codes which they possess.
While reading, we try not only to read and realize the given information. Often we try to find “encrypted” or hidden information between the lines. Critically evaluating the data, people usually apprehend it from the positions of informational barriers and codes, such as, for example, person who has never heard about the Cold War rivalry would never understand the motifs of the Korean War or Caribbean Crisis.
The writing process is closely connected with critical thinking. While writing, we evaluate the information from lots of points: grammar, style, word order, fact order, political correctness, etc. Critically evaluated writing is a guaranty of success, ad that it will be correctly understood.
The information processing and critical thinking had been regarded above, and it is directly linked with reading—the same factors of critical thinking influence both: reading and information processing.
It should be added that the influence in the future will change only with regard to mentality changes. The essence of the impact will stay the same.
Application of Critical Thinking
- Articles are always subjected to a critical evaluation and thinking. This process starts from writers processing, then editing, which is the process of critical evaluation itself and reading by the consumers.
- Advertising is usually initially created to be critically thought over. The consumers always have to evaluate it in order to choose the most suitable commercial message and define whether he/ she needs these or that product.
- Media is the feature of our up-to-date life, and it is almost impossible to imagine one without the other. Everything that needs to be apprehended always has to be critically thought over and separated from other data.
- Conversations form forms our everyday life; being social animals, a human can not do without conversations. Critical thinking is always applied to this sphere of our life. We choose people whom we want or are obliged to talk to; we choose the topic of our conversations regarding the situation we are in (formal, informal), etc. These factors are chosen as a result of critical thinking and proper evaluation.