On the First Day of Introductory Philosophy Class,Nora Asks Her

Multiple Choice

On the first day of Introductory Philosophy class,Nora asks her students to provide a definition of the term critical thinking.Having aced Introductory Psychology last semester,Cassie knows that critical thinking is ____.

A) a specific, testable proposition about something under study
B) the process of assessing claims and making judgments on the basis of well-supported evidence
C) a cognitive response reliant on heuristics that allows a person to draw reasonable conclusions
D) the process of describing the exact operations or methods a scientist will use in a research study