Open-mindedness:
Open-mindedness is the tendency to allow others to voice views
with which one may not agree. Open-minded people act with tolerance
toward the opinions of others, knowing that often we all hold
beliefs which make sense only from our own perspectives. Open-mindedness,
as used here, is important for harmony in a pluralistic and complex
society where people approach issues from different religious,
political, social, family, cultural, and personal backgrounds.
The opposite of open-mindedness is closed-mindedness and intolerance
for the ideas of others.
Analyticity:Analyticity
is the tendency to be alert to what happens next. This is the
habit of striving to anticipate both the good and the bad potential
consequences or outcomes of situations, choices, proposals, and
plans. The opposite of analyticity is being heedless of consequences,
not attending to what happens next when one makes choices or accepts
ideas uncritically.
Systematicity:
Systematicity is the tendency or habit of striving to approach
problems in a disciplined, orderly, and systematic way. The habit
of being disorganized is the opposite characteristic to systematicity.
The person who is strong in systematicity may or may not actually
know or use a given strategy or any particular pattern in problem
solving, but they have the mental desire and tendency to approach
questions and issues in such an organized way.
Critical
Thinking Self-Confidence: The tendency to trust the use of
reason and reflective thinking to solve problems is reasoning
self-confidence. This habit can apply to individuals or to groups;
as can the other dispositional characteristics measured by the
CCTDI. We as a family, team, office, community, or society can
have the habit of being trustful of reasoned judgment as the means
of solving our problems and reaching our goals. The opposite is
the tendency to be mistrustful of reason, to consistently devalue
or be hostile to the use of careful reason and reflection as a
means to solving problems or discovering what to do or what to
believe.
Inquisitiveness:
Inquisitiveness is intellectual curiosity. It is the tendency
to want to know things, even if they are not immediately or obviously
useful at the moment. It is being curious and eager to acquire
new knowledge and to learn the explanations for things even when
the applications of that new learning is not immediately apparent.
The opposite of inquisitiveness is indifference.
Maturity of Judgment: Cognitive maturity is the tendency
to see problems as complex, rather than black and white. It is
the habit of making a judgment in a timely way, not prematurely,
and not with undue delay. It is the tendency of standing firm
in one's judgment when there is reason to do so, but changing
one's mind when that is the appropriate thing to do. It is prudence
in making, suspending, or revising judgment. It is being aware
that multiple solutions may be acceptable while appreciating the
need to reach closure in certain circumstances even in the absence
of complete knowledge. The opposite, cognitive immaturity, is
characterized by being imprudent, black-and-white thinking, failing
to come to closure in a timely way, stubbornly refusing to change
one's mind when reasons and evidence would indicate one is mistaken,
or foolishly revising one's opinions willy-nilly without substantial
reason for doing so.
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