Cognitive Progression

My professor told me to write a critique essay that includes the six types of critical thinking…. I have no idea what they are. Does any1 know?

Well, there are two sets of the old-fashioned "Six Types" questions, one is the philosophical Socrates style which follows this sort layout:

Questions regarding clarification
Questions that investigate assumptions
Questions that investigate reason and evidence
Questions about Viewpoints and Perspectives
Questions that probe implications and consequences
Questions about the question

You can find more about these at:

http://www.engin.umich.edu/~problemsolving/strategy/cthinking.htm

The other set is Introductory Psychology, which poses the following six types of critical thinking:

Pattern Recognition
Practical Problem Solving
Creative Problem Solving
Scientific Critical Thinking
Psychological Reasoning
Perspective Taking.

Unfortunately, I do not have any web indexed suggestions for these. I haven’t been in Psychology class in six years.