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05/31 – The Assessment and Development of Analytical and Systems Thinking Skills in the Work Environment

Feature Articles / May 2018

Maretha Prinsloo & Riana Prinsloo

Introduction

Human survival is premised on the capacity to continuously ascribe meaning to stimuli and acting on these perspectives in order to achieve certain goals. This involves a full range of integrated cognitive processes referred to as, inter alia, thinking skills, intellectual functioning, reasoning, problem solving, perceptual frameworks, creativity and judgement.

Cognitive functioning is by no means a static “entity”: it is highly dynamic and can be influenced by a …