In recent years there is an interest about how the brain works and how people learn, and evidence that specific interventions can improve thinking. The particular ways in which people apply their minds to solving problems are called thinking skills. 

Affective Strategy

• Thinking independently
• Developing insight into egocentricity or sociocentricity
• Exercising fairmindness
• Exploring thoughts underlying feelings and feelings underlying thoughts
• Developing intellectual courage
• Developing intellectual good faith or integrity
• Developing intellectual perseverance
• Developing intellectual confidence in reason

Cognitive Strategy

• Refining generalizations and avoiding oversimplifications 
• Comparing analogous situations transferring insights to new contexts
• Developing one’s perspective creating or exploring beliefs, arguments or theories
• Clarifying issues, conclusions, or beliefs
• Clarifying and analyzing the meanings of words or phrases
• Developing criteria for evaluation clarifying values and standards
• Evaluating the credibility of sources of information
• Analyzing or evaluating arguments, interpretations beliefs or theories
• Generating or assessing solutions
• Analyzing or evaluating actions or policies
• Reading critically clarifying or critiquing text
• Listening critically the art of silent dialogue
• Making interdisciplinary connections
• Practicing Socratic discussions  clarifying and questioning beliefs , theories, or perspectives