WGU C168 CRITICAL THINKING OBJECTIVE
ASSESSMENT EXAM REVIEW WITH SOLVED
QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE ANSWERS
◉ 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
ASSESSMENT EXAM REVIEW WITH SOLVED
QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE ANSWERS
◉ 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
