WGU CRITICAL T C168| QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS | NEW EDITION 2026
Critical Thinking - answer- is an intellectual model for understanding issues and forming
reasonable and informed views on them
Analyzing your own thinking and breaking down your thoughts into its component
thoughts - answer- What is the first step of critical thinking?
Evaluating your own thinking and identifying its weakness while recognizing its
strengths - answer- What is the second step of critical thinking?
Improving your own thinking and reconstructing it to make it better - answer- What is the
third step of critical thinking?
critical thinking - answer- is to analyze, assess, and reconstruct ones own thinking in
order to improve its quality
egocentrism and sociocentrism - answer- Critical thinking demands commitments to
surmounting what two barriers that are native to everyone?
egocentrism - answer- or the tendency to view everything in relationship to oneself
sociocentrism - answer- or the assumption that one's own social group is inherently
superior to all others
first order thinking (ordinary thinking) - answer- Spontaneous and non-reflective
Contains insight, prejudice, good and bad reasoning
Indiscriminately combined
second order thinking (critical thinking) - answer- First order thinking that is consciously
realized (i.e., analyzed, assessed, and reconstructed).
weak sense critical thinking - answer- Thinking that does not consider counter
viewpoints, that lacks fair-mindedness and that uses critical thinking skills simply to
defend current beliefs.
strong sense critical thinking - answer- Thinking that uses critical thinking skills to
evaluate all beliefs, especially one's own, and that pursues what is intellectually fair and
just.
d. strive to be ethical - answer- Which of the following do weak-sense thinkers NOT do?
,a. employ lower-level rhetorical skills
b. employ emotionalism
c. hide or disort evidence
d. strive to be ethical
a. critical thinking skills are never used selfishly - answer- Which of the following
statements is false?
a. critical thinking skills are never used selfishly
b. strong-sensed critical thinking implies higher-order thinking
c. weak-sense thinkers ignore the flaws in their thinking
d. strong-sense critical thinkers will listen to opposing arguments
fair mindedness - answer- The commitment to consider all relevant opinions equally
without regard to one's own sentiments or selfish interests.
fair mindedness - answer- To bring an unbiased and unprejudiced perspective to all
viewpoints relevant to a situation
intellectual unfainess - answer- What is the opposite of fair mindedness?
intellectual unfairness - answer- feel no responsibility to represent viewpoints with which
they disagree fairly and accurately. You always see yourself right and just
intellectual humility - answer- Commitment to discovering the extent of one's own
ignorance on any issue.
Recognition that one does not—and cannot—know everything.
Consciousness of ones biases and prejudices.
Aware of the limitations of ones viewpoints.
Intellectual arrogance - answer- What is the opposite of Intellectual Humility?
fair minded thinker - answer- means habitually applying the standards of reasoning to
ones own thinking in an effort to improve it
intellectual arrogance - answer- overestimation of how much one knows
no insight into self-deception or into the limitations of ones viewpoints
intellectual courage - answer- confronting ideas, viewpoints, or beliefs with fairness,
even when doing do is painful
, examining fairly beliefs which one has strong negative feelings and toward which one
has previously been dismissive
challenging popular belief
intellectual cowardice - answer- What is the opposite of intellectual courage?
intellectual cowardice - answer- fear of ideas that do not conform to ones own
deters serious consideration of ideas, beliefs, or viewpoints perceived as dangerous
how they arrive at their beliefs (i.e. the intellectual process) - answer- Critical thinkers
don't link their self-identities to their beliefs. They define themselves according to what?
intellectual empathy - answer- inhabiting the perspectives of others in order to genuinely
understand them
ability to reconstruct other peoples viewpoints and reasoning
ability to reason from premises, assumptions, and ideas not ones own
intellectual self-centeredness - answer- What is the opposite of intellectual empathy?
intellectual self-centeredness - answer- thinking centered on self
renders us unable to understand others thoughts, feelings, and emotions
intellectual integrity - answer- Holding oneself to the same rigorous intellectual
standards that one expects others to meet
practicing daily what we preach to others
intellectual disohonesty - answer- What is the opposite of intellectual integrity?
intellectual dishonesty - answer- marked by contradictions and inconsistencies of which
the perpetrator is unconscious
hiding our hypocrisy from ourselves
intellectual laziness - answer- giving up quickly when confronted with a tough
intellectual challenge
reflects a low tolerance for mental struggle or frustration
intellectual laziness - answer- What is the opposite of intellectual perseverance?
AND ANSWERS | NEW EDITION 2026
Critical Thinking - answer- is an intellectual model for understanding issues and forming
reasonable and informed views on them
Analyzing your own thinking and breaking down your thoughts into its component
thoughts - answer- What is the first step of critical thinking?
Evaluating your own thinking and identifying its weakness while recognizing its
strengths - answer- What is the second step of critical thinking?
Improving your own thinking and reconstructing it to make it better - answer- What is the
third step of critical thinking?
critical thinking - answer- is to analyze, assess, and reconstruct ones own thinking in
order to improve its quality
egocentrism and sociocentrism - answer- Critical thinking demands commitments to
surmounting what two barriers that are native to everyone?
egocentrism - answer- or the tendency to view everything in relationship to oneself
sociocentrism - answer- or the assumption that one's own social group is inherently
superior to all others
first order thinking (ordinary thinking) - answer- Spontaneous and non-reflective
Contains insight, prejudice, good and bad reasoning
Indiscriminately combined
second order thinking (critical thinking) - answer- First order thinking that is consciously
realized (i.e., analyzed, assessed, and reconstructed).
weak sense critical thinking - answer- Thinking that does not consider counter
viewpoints, that lacks fair-mindedness and that uses critical thinking skills simply to
defend current beliefs.
strong sense critical thinking - answer- Thinking that uses critical thinking skills to
evaluate all beliefs, especially one's own, and that pursues what is intellectually fair and
just.
d. strive to be ethical - answer- Which of the following do weak-sense thinkers NOT do?
,a. employ lower-level rhetorical skills
b. employ emotionalism
c. hide or disort evidence
d. strive to be ethical
a. critical thinking skills are never used selfishly - answer- Which of the following
statements is false?
a. critical thinking skills are never used selfishly
b. strong-sensed critical thinking implies higher-order thinking
c. weak-sense thinkers ignore the flaws in their thinking
d. strong-sense critical thinkers will listen to opposing arguments
fair mindedness - answer- The commitment to consider all relevant opinions equally
without regard to one's own sentiments or selfish interests.
fair mindedness - answer- To bring an unbiased and unprejudiced perspective to all
viewpoints relevant to a situation
intellectual unfainess - answer- What is the opposite of fair mindedness?
intellectual unfairness - answer- feel no responsibility to represent viewpoints with which
they disagree fairly and accurately. You always see yourself right and just
intellectual humility - answer- Commitment to discovering the extent of one's own
ignorance on any issue.
Recognition that one does not—and cannot—know everything.
Consciousness of ones biases and prejudices.
Aware of the limitations of ones viewpoints.
Intellectual arrogance - answer- What is the opposite of Intellectual Humility?
fair minded thinker - answer- means habitually applying the standards of reasoning to
ones own thinking in an effort to improve it
intellectual arrogance - answer- overestimation of how much one knows
no insight into self-deception or into the limitations of ones viewpoints
intellectual courage - answer- confronting ideas, viewpoints, or beliefs with fairness,
even when doing do is painful
, examining fairly beliefs which one has strong negative feelings and toward which one
has previously been dismissive
challenging popular belief
intellectual cowardice - answer- What is the opposite of intellectual courage?
intellectual cowardice - answer- fear of ideas that do not conform to ones own
deters serious consideration of ideas, beliefs, or viewpoints perceived as dangerous
how they arrive at their beliefs (i.e. the intellectual process) - answer- Critical thinkers
don't link their self-identities to their beliefs. They define themselves according to what?
intellectual empathy - answer- inhabiting the perspectives of others in order to genuinely
understand them
ability to reconstruct other peoples viewpoints and reasoning
ability to reason from premises, assumptions, and ideas not ones own
intellectual self-centeredness - answer- What is the opposite of intellectual empathy?
intellectual self-centeredness - answer- thinking centered on self
renders us unable to understand others thoughts, feelings, and emotions
intellectual integrity - answer- Holding oneself to the same rigorous intellectual
standards that one expects others to meet
practicing daily what we preach to others
intellectual disohonesty - answer- What is the opposite of intellectual integrity?
intellectual dishonesty - answer- marked by contradictions and inconsistencies of which
the perpetrator is unconscious
hiding our hypocrisy from ourselves
intellectual laziness - answer- giving up quickly when confronted with a tough
intellectual challenge
reflects a low tolerance for mental struggle or frustration
intellectual laziness - answer- What is the opposite of intellectual perseverance?
