The statement that non-critical thinkers generally adopt beliefs without thoughtful scrutiny or rigorous evaluation, letting these beliefs drift into their thinking for all sorts of superficial and illogical reasons is true.
Critical thinkers on the other hand analyze and evaluate all the available information, develop their own well-reasoned beliefs, and recognize when they don't have sufficient information to arrive at well-reasoned beliefs.
The answer to the blank space is center-outward.
The proximodistal trend in general can be defined as a concept in developmental psychology where <em>humans tend to develop more general functions of limbs before developing more specific fine motor skills – this is partially what the center to outward concept implies. </em>
An example of this phenomenon would be how infants would learn how to use their arm before learning how to write.
If the Confederacy had been a separate nation, it would have ranked as the fourth richest in the world at the start of the Civil War. The slave economy had been very good to American prosperity. By the start of the war, the South was producing 75 percent of the world’s cotton and creating more millionaires per capita in the Mississippi River valley than anywhere in the nation. Slaves represented Southern planters’ most significant investment—and the bulk of their wealth
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1) it tells us how to run our government
2) it tells us how to make laws that keep us safe