How do emotions positively and negatively influence critical thinking? Describe how you balance your emotion and reason when making decisions. Include an example of when you had to use both. Ch. 3 of THiNK: Critical Thinking and Logic Skills for Everyday Life covers the topic of language and communication, which also play a role in critical thinking. Explain the role of communication in critical thinking and provide an example of a time when and how language or communication influenced your critical thinking. Reflect on the learning activities, concepts, ideas, and topics covered this week. What is the most interesting activity or concept you learned this week? Mention any concepts that are still a bit confusing to you or that you have questions about.

Emotions has direct impact on our ability of critical thinking.

Emotions has both positively and negatively effect on our critical thinking because emotions affect the brain which is the main center from where critical thinking occurs.

If we experience happy emotions our mind work more efficiently while on the other hand, if there is stress on our mind we can't continue the critical thinking so we can conclude that emotions has direct impact on our ability of critical thinking.

We can balance our emotion when making decisions through avoiding the stress and making decisions by the use of brain not by the heart. We make decisions logically not emotionally.

Communication is considered as the skeletal structure of critical thinking means central part where a person thinks from the inner core and puts them into sentences.

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1. Emotions, whether positive or negative, influence critical thinking because they prevent the individual from using rationality to think. Thus, we can say that in relation to the act of thinking critically, the use of emotions influences in an evil way.

2. To balance emotion and reason, I like to evaluate the possible results of my choice first. In that case, I see what the results of a particular decision would be if I acted rationally and what the results would be if I acted emotionally. I also assess how these results would affect me and those close to me. An example of when I had to use reason and emotion for a decision was when I had to choose whether to live with my mom or dad. In this case, emotion was a very strong factor, but I had to think rationally about all the consequences.

3. Language is very important in critical thinking as it shows how your reasoning works and expresses what you have evaluated according to that situation. In other words, language is important to externalize your reasoning to attract other reasonings that complement yours. An example of when language helped my critical thinking was when I talked to my parents about the reasons I was evaluating to decide who I was going to live with. In this way, my parents understood my position and gave me some suggestions that complemented my reasoning.

P.S. You didn't talk about the concepts covered in the week, but I suggest you read a summary of them and write about the ones you identified with and understood the most. You can also explain what caused you to not identify with other concepts, and why you were confused about them.