WGU - CRITICAL THINKING &
LOGIC QUIZ QUESTIONS AND
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS GRADED
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Your Exam Plug
, IMPEDIMENTS/BAD HABITS TO SOUND THINKING: - Answer: - Making generalizations unsupported by
evidence
- Letting stereotypes shape our thinking
- Viewing the world from one fixed vantage point
- Forming false beliefs
- Dismissing or attacking viewpoints that conflict with our own
- Thinking deceptively about our own experiences
EGOCENTRISM: - Answer: the tendency to view everything in relationship to oneself.
SOCIOCENTRISM: - Answer: the assumption that one's own social group is inherently superior to all
others.
CRITICAL THINKING IS CHARACTERISTICALLY: - Answer: self-directed; self-disciplined; self-monitored;
self-corrective; requires practicing good intellectual habits; "thinking about thinking".
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).
FAIR-MINDEDNESS: - Answer: to consider all relevant opinions equally without regard to one's own
sentiments or selfish interests; to bring an unbiased and unprejudiced perspective to all viewpoints
relevant to a situation. Involves adherence to Intellectual Standards along with requiring the critical
thinker to simultaneously embody certain key Intellectual Traits.
INTELLECTUAL UNFAIRNESS (opposite of fair-mindedness): - Answer: to always see yourself as right and
just; nearly always involves an element of self-deception.
TRAITS/VIRTUES of a CRITICAL THINKER:
*terms used by Paul & Elder
LOGIC QUIZ QUESTIONS AND
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS GRADED
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Your Exam Plug
, IMPEDIMENTS/BAD HABITS TO SOUND THINKING: - Answer: - Making generalizations unsupported by
evidence
- Letting stereotypes shape our thinking
- Viewing the world from one fixed vantage point
- Forming false beliefs
- Dismissing or attacking viewpoints that conflict with our own
- Thinking deceptively about our own experiences
EGOCENTRISM: - Answer: the tendency to view everything in relationship to oneself.
SOCIOCENTRISM: - Answer: the assumption that one's own social group is inherently superior to all
others.
CRITICAL THINKING IS CHARACTERISTICALLY: - Answer: self-directed; self-disciplined; self-monitored;
self-corrective; requires practicing good intellectual habits; "thinking about thinking".
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).
FAIR-MINDEDNESS: - Answer: to consider all relevant opinions equally without regard to one's own
sentiments or selfish interests; to bring an unbiased and unprejudiced perspective to all viewpoints
relevant to a situation. Involves adherence to Intellectual Standards along with requiring the critical
thinker to simultaneously embody certain key Intellectual Traits.
INTELLECTUAL UNFAIRNESS (opposite of fair-mindedness): - Answer: to always see yourself as right and
just; nearly always involves an element of self-deception.
TRAITS/VIRTUES of a CRITICAL THINKER:
*terms used by Paul & Elder
