Critical Thinking and Forensic Skills

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Analytical Skills

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Ability to examine something by separating it into parts and studying its relationships and influences. Using critical thinking skills.

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Deductive Reasoning

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The process of applying a general statement to specific facts or situations.

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Eyewitnesses

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A person who has personally seen something happen and so can give a first-hand description of it.

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Fact

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A thing that is indisputably the case.

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Forensic

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Relating to the application of scientific knowledge to legal questions. Means 'of the Forum' in Greek.

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Logical

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Reasoning based upon facts.

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Observation

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Information obtained through the senses.

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Opinion

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A belief or view about something

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Perception

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The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events

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Cognitive bias

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Error in thinking that involves processing threatening information or interpreting ambiguous information negatively (also known as implicit bias)