On the first day of Introductory Philosophy class, Nora asks her students to provide a definition of ...

On the first day of Introductory Philosophy class, Nora asks her students to provide a definition of the term critical thinking. Having aced Introductory Psychology last semester, Cassie knows that critical thinking is ____.
 
  a. a specific, testable proposition about something under study
  b. the process of assessing claims and making judgments on the basis of well-supported evidence
  c. a cognitive response reliant on heuristics that allows a person to draw reasonable conclusions
  d. the process of describing the exact operations or methods a scientist will use in a research study