WGU D265 CRITICAL THINKING REASON
AND EVIDENCE EXAM SCRIPT 2026 MOST
TESTED 100 QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE
ANSWERS
⩥ confirmation bias. Answer: a tendency to search for information that
supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory
evidence
⩥ Alief. Answer: An automatic or habitual belief-like attitude which
may or may not be in tension with the subject's explicit beliefs
⩥ Heuristic. Answer: a simple thinking strategy that often allows us to
make judgments and solve problems efficiently; usually speedier but
also more error-prone than algorithms
⩥ anchoring bias. Answer: a tendency to fixate on initial information,
from which one then fails to adequately adjust for subsequent
information
⩥ availability bias. Answer: items that are more readily available in
memory are judged as having occurred more frequently
, ⩥ ad hominem. Answer: a fallacy that attacks the person rather than
dealing with the real issue in dispute
⩥ Genetic Fallacy. Answer: Condemning an argument because of where
it began, how it began, or who began it.
⩥ straw man fallacy. Answer: instead of dealing with the actual issue, it
attacks a weaker version of argument
⩥ red herring fallacy. Answer: when a speaker introduces an irrelevant
issue or piece of evidence to divert attention from the subject of the
speech
⩥ appeal to authority fallacy. Answer: error of accepting a claim merely
because an authority figure endorses it
⩥ Appeal to Force. Answer: Arguer threatens reader/listener
⩥ ad populum. Answer: This fallacy occurs when evidence boils down
to "everybody's doing it, so it must be a good thing to do."
⩥ Appeal to Consequences. Answer: attempt to motivate belief with
either the good consequences of believing or the bad consequences of
disbelieving
AND EVIDENCE EXAM SCRIPT 2026 MOST
TESTED 100 QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE
ANSWERS
⩥ confirmation bias. Answer: a tendency to search for information that
supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory
evidence
⩥ Alief. Answer: An automatic or habitual belief-like attitude which
may or may not be in tension with the subject's explicit beliefs
⩥ Heuristic. Answer: a simple thinking strategy that often allows us to
make judgments and solve problems efficiently; usually speedier but
also more error-prone than algorithms
⩥ anchoring bias. Answer: a tendency to fixate on initial information,
from which one then fails to adequately adjust for subsequent
information
⩥ availability bias. Answer: items that are more readily available in
memory are judged as having occurred more frequently
, ⩥ ad hominem. Answer: a fallacy that attacks the person rather than
dealing with the real issue in dispute
⩥ Genetic Fallacy. Answer: Condemning an argument because of where
it began, how it began, or who began it.
⩥ straw man fallacy. Answer: instead of dealing with the actual issue, it
attacks a weaker version of argument
⩥ red herring fallacy. Answer: when a speaker introduces an irrelevant
issue or piece of evidence to divert attention from the subject of the
speech
⩥ appeal to authority fallacy. Answer: error of accepting a claim merely
because an authority figure endorses it
⩥ Appeal to Force. Answer: Arguer threatens reader/listener
⩥ ad populum. Answer: This fallacy occurs when evidence boils down
to "everybody's doing it, so it must be a good thing to do."
⩥ Appeal to Consequences. Answer: attempt to motivate belief with
either the good consequences of believing or the bad consequences of
disbelieving
