Reflective Essay: What Are The Barriers To Critical Thinking?

During Reasoning and Argumentation, I felt I put in a fair amount of in class work. I showed up for every class period and stayed the entire time. Also, I shared my opinion during almost every class discussion. I understand that we as humans have barriers to critical thinking through hindrance. This hindrance comes in many forms. For example, there is using defensive arguments, when how we see the world may be questioned, through things such as cliches and ignorance. Although there is many ways to have barriers to critical thinking, I believe one that was prominent in our discussion was group decision making, or following the group to fit in. As well as, doing whatever the leader of a group tells you to do.
Furthermore we also found that many people are swayed by the use of advertising. When in reality advertising is mostly just marketing experts who exercise vagueness, false implications, emotional charge, ambiguous comparisons, weasel words, exaggeration, puffery, and sexual/subliminal pitches. These are all ways of dancing around the truth and not being honest with consumers. These arguments taught me to analysis the language and validity of these companies promises. Analyzing language, I found that there are many reasons to speak …show more content…
I agree with her proposed problem, claim, grounds, and recap. I believe her warrant is just a restatement of her grounds. A warrant should be a generalized principle, so Jaycelynn’s warrant should read: The human population prefers to get large tasks completed in the most efficient way possible. The warrant she has stated is just her general opinion. Her backing is also not effective. Jaycelynn should have brought forth evidence from a journal or website. For example, maybe the backing could have to do with how trade school students feel more content with their education because they are being taught