WGU C168 EXAM SCRIPT VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS COMPLETE
REVIEW MATERIAL
●● Purpose
Answer: The goal or objective of reasoning
●● Concepts
Answer: General categories or ideas by which we interpret or classify
information used in our thinking
●● Inference
Answer: A logical process of drawing conclusions
●● Precision
Answer: Being precise or exact
●● Implication
Answer: What logically follows from reasoning
●● Assumptions
,Answer: Unstated or hidden beliefs that support our explicit reasoning
about something
●● Point of view
Answer: The particular perspective from which something is observed or
thought through
●● Accuracy
Answer: Being near to the true value or meaning of something
●● Egocentrism
Answer: The tendency to view everything in relationship to oneself and
to regard one's own opinions, values, or interests as most important
●● Fair-mindedness
Answer: The commitment to consider all relevant opinions equally
without regard to one's own sentiments or selfish interests
●● Fallacies
Answer: Flaws or errors in reasoning which, when found in the premise
of an argument, invalidate its conclusion
●● Intellectual cowardice
, Answer: Fear of ideas or viewpoints that do not conform to one's own
●● Intellectual empathy
Answer: The act of routinely inhabiting the perspectives of others in
order to genuinely understand them
●● Intellectual humility
Answer: Openness to the possibility that one's beliefs are mistaken and a
willingness to reevaluate them in the face of new evidence or persuasive
counterarguments
●● Intellectual perseverance
Answer: The act of working one's way through intellectual complexities
despite frustrations inherent in doing so
●● Second-order thinking
Answer: Another term for critical thinking. It is first-order thinking (or
ordinary thinking) that is consciously realized (i.e., analyzed, assessed,
and improved)
●● First-order thinking
Answer: Ordinary thinking that is spontaneous and non-reflective,
contains insight, prejudice and good and bad reasoning, and is
indiscriminately combined
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS COMPLETE
REVIEW MATERIAL
●● Purpose
Answer: The goal or objective of reasoning
●● Concepts
Answer: General categories or ideas by which we interpret or classify
information used in our thinking
●● Inference
Answer: A logical process of drawing conclusions
●● Precision
Answer: Being precise or exact
●● Implication
Answer: What logically follows from reasoning
●● Assumptions
,Answer: Unstated or hidden beliefs that support our explicit reasoning
about something
●● Point of view
Answer: The particular perspective from which something is observed or
thought through
●● Accuracy
Answer: Being near to the true value or meaning of something
●● Egocentrism
Answer: The tendency to view everything in relationship to oneself and
to regard one's own opinions, values, or interests as most important
●● Fair-mindedness
Answer: The commitment to consider all relevant opinions equally
without regard to one's own sentiments or selfish interests
●● Fallacies
Answer: Flaws or errors in reasoning which, when found in the premise
of an argument, invalidate its conclusion
●● Intellectual cowardice
, Answer: Fear of ideas or viewpoints that do not conform to one's own
●● Intellectual empathy
Answer: The act of routinely inhabiting the perspectives of others in
order to genuinely understand them
●● Intellectual humility
Answer: Openness to the possibility that one's beliefs are mistaken and a
willingness to reevaluate them in the face of new evidence or persuasive
counterarguments
●● Intellectual perseverance
Answer: The act of working one's way through intellectual complexities
despite frustrations inherent in doing so
●● Second-order thinking
Answer: Another term for critical thinking. It is first-order thinking (or
ordinary thinking) that is consciously realized (i.e., analyzed, assessed,
and improved)
●● First-order thinking
Answer: Ordinary thinking that is spontaneous and non-reflective,
contains insight, prejudice and good and bad reasoning, and is
indiscriminately combined
