WGU C168-Critical Thinking & Logic Module 1: What is
critical thinking?
Weak-Sense Critical Thinkers Correct Ans-•Ignore the flaws in their own thinking
•Often seek to win an argument through intellectual trickery or deceit.
•Lacks key higher-level skills and values of critical thinking
•Makes no good faith effort to consider alternative viewpoints.
•Lacks fair-mindedness
Weak-Sense Critical Thinkers tend to: Correct Ans-•Employ lower-level rhetorical skills
(making it unreasonable thinking appear reasonable thinking appear unreasonable)
•Employ emotionalism and intellectual trickery
•Hide or distort evidence
Strong-Sense Critical Thinking Correct Ans-Is thinking that uses critical thinking skills to
evaluate all beliefs, especially one's own, and pursues what is intellectually fair and just
Strong-Sense Critical thinkers: Correct Ans-•Strive to be ethical
•Strive to empathize with others' viewpoints
, WGU C168-Critical Thinking & Logic Module 1: What is
critical thinking?
•Will entertain arguments with which they do not agree
•Change their views when confronted with superior reasoning
•Employ their thinking reasonably rather than manipulatively
Fair-minded yields many intellectual virtues it leads us to: Correct Ans-•Consider all
thinking by the same standards
•Expect good reasoning from supporters as well as opponents
•Apply the same critical criteria to our own logic as to other's reasoning
•Recognize the actual strengths and weaknesses of any reasoning we assess
Fair Mindedness Correct Ans-Is the commitment to consider all relevant opinions equally
without regard to one's own sentiments or selfish interests
The mind performs three basic functions Correct Ans-1. Thinking
2. Feeling
3. Wanting
, WGU C168-Critical Thinking & Logic Module 1: What is
critical thinking?
Thinking Correct Ans-Thinking creates meaning. It sorts events in our lives into categories.
It finds patterns in the world around us. Thinking informs us what is going on.
Feeling Correct Ans-Feeling monitors the meanings created by thinking. It evaluates the
degree to which life's events are either positive or negative, given the meaning we assign to
them. This function continually informs us how we should respond emotionally to what is
happening in our lives.
Wanting Correct Ans-Wanting allocates energy into action. It does so consistently with
how we define what is desirable and possible. Wanting continually tells us what is (or is not)
worth seeking or getting.
Critical Thinking Correct Ans-Is an intellectual model for understanding issues and forming
reasonable and informed views on them.
Critical Thinking composes three interlinking dimensions: Correct Ans-1. Analyzing one's
own thinking-breaking it down into its component
critical thinking?
Weak-Sense Critical Thinkers Correct Ans-•Ignore the flaws in their own thinking
•Often seek to win an argument through intellectual trickery or deceit.
•Lacks key higher-level skills and values of critical thinking
•Makes no good faith effort to consider alternative viewpoints.
•Lacks fair-mindedness
Weak-Sense Critical Thinkers tend to: Correct Ans-•Employ lower-level rhetorical skills
(making it unreasonable thinking appear reasonable thinking appear unreasonable)
•Employ emotionalism and intellectual trickery
•Hide or distort evidence
Strong-Sense Critical Thinking Correct Ans-Is thinking that uses critical thinking skills to
evaluate all beliefs, especially one's own, and pursues what is intellectually fair and just
Strong-Sense Critical thinkers: Correct Ans-•Strive to be ethical
•Strive to empathize with others' viewpoints
, WGU C168-Critical Thinking & Logic Module 1: What is
critical thinking?
•Will entertain arguments with which they do not agree
•Change their views when confronted with superior reasoning
•Employ their thinking reasonably rather than manipulatively
Fair-minded yields many intellectual virtues it leads us to: Correct Ans-•Consider all
thinking by the same standards
•Expect good reasoning from supporters as well as opponents
•Apply the same critical criteria to our own logic as to other's reasoning
•Recognize the actual strengths and weaknesses of any reasoning we assess
Fair Mindedness Correct Ans-Is the commitment to consider all relevant opinions equally
without regard to one's own sentiments or selfish interests
The mind performs three basic functions Correct Ans-1. Thinking
2. Feeling
3. Wanting
, WGU C168-Critical Thinking & Logic Module 1: What is
critical thinking?
Thinking Correct Ans-Thinking creates meaning. It sorts events in our lives into categories.
It finds patterns in the world around us. Thinking informs us what is going on.
Feeling Correct Ans-Feeling monitors the meanings created by thinking. It evaluates the
degree to which life's events are either positive or negative, given the meaning we assign to
them. This function continually informs us how we should respond emotionally to what is
happening in our lives.
Wanting Correct Ans-Wanting allocates energy into action. It does so consistently with
how we define what is desirable and possible. Wanting continually tells us what is (or is not)
worth seeking or getting.
Critical Thinking Correct Ans-Is an intellectual model for understanding issues and forming
reasonable and informed views on them.
Critical Thinking composes three interlinking dimensions: Correct Ans-1. Analyzing one's
own thinking-breaking it down into its component
