WGU D265 CRITICAL THINKING
EXAMINATION TEST BANK STUDY GUIDE FOR
COMPLETE PREP WITH VERIFIED ACCURATE
SOLUTIONS
◉ Principle of Charity. Answer: we should choose the reconstructed
argument that gives the benefit of the doubt to the person presenting
the argument
◉ confirmation bias. Answer: a tendency to search for information
that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory
evidence
◉ Alief. Answer: An automatic or habitual belief-like attitude which
may or may not be in tension with the subject's explicit beliefs
◉ Heuristic. Answer: a simple thinking strategy that often allows us
to make judgments and solve problems efficiently; usually speedier
but also more error-prone than algorithms
◉ anchoring bias. Answer: a tendency to fixate on initial information,
from which one then fails to adequately adjust for subsequent
information
EXAMINATION TEST BANK STUDY GUIDE FOR
COMPLETE PREP WITH VERIFIED ACCURATE
SOLUTIONS
◉ Principle of Charity. Answer: we should choose the reconstructed
argument that gives the benefit of the doubt to the person presenting
the argument
◉ confirmation bias. Answer: a tendency to search for information
that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory
evidence
◉ Alief. Answer: An automatic or habitual belief-like attitude which
may or may not be in tension with the subject's explicit beliefs
◉ Heuristic. Answer: a simple thinking strategy that often allows us
to make judgments and solve problems efficiently; usually speedier
but also more error-prone than algorithms
◉ anchoring bias. Answer: a tendency to fixate on initial information,
from which one then fails to adequately adjust for subsequent
information
