WGU C168 ACTUAL TEST PAPER FULL
QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE ANSWERS
GRADED APLUS
●● 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?
QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE ANSWERS
GRADED APLUS
●● 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?
