WGU - CRITICAL THINKING & LOGIC questions with
verified answers
CRITICAL THINKING IS CHARACTERISTICALLY: Ans✓✓✓-self-directed; self-
disciplined; self-monitored;
self-corrective; requires practicing good intellectual habits; "thinking about
thinking".
EGOCENTRISM: Ans✓✓✓-the tendency to view everything in relationship to
oneself.
Element: ASSUMPTIONS/PRESUPPOSED Ans✓✓✓-Reasoning begins with our
assumptions. These encompass everything we take for granted as true in order to
figure out something else. Being able to identify assumptions (others' and our
own) is essential to critical thinking.
Element: CONCEPTS Ans✓✓✓-Reasoning takes form in concepts. Most of us take
our concepts for granted. Critical thinking requires us to be aware of the concepts
we hold and consider how they drive our reasoning.
Element: IMPLICATIONS/CONSEQUENCES Ans✓✓✓-
Element: INFERENCES Ans✓✓✓-
Element: INFORMATION Ans✓✓✓-
Element: POINT of VIEW Ans✓✓✓-
, Element: PURPOSE Ans✓✓✓-
Element: QUESTIONS Ans✓✓✓-
FAIR-MINDEDNESS: Ans✓✓✓-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.
FIRST-ORDER THINKING (ORDINARY THINKING): Ans✓✓✓-spontaneous and non-
reflective; contains insight, prejudice, good and bad reasoning indiscriminately
combined
IMPEDIMENTS/BAD HABITS TO SOUND THINKING: Ans✓✓✓-- 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
Intellectual Standard: Accuracy Ans✓✓✓-Questions focusing on making thinking
more accurate include:
- Is that really true?
- How could we check to see if that is accurate?
verified answers
CRITICAL THINKING IS CHARACTERISTICALLY: Ans✓✓✓-self-directed; self-
disciplined; self-monitored;
self-corrective; requires practicing good intellectual habits; "thinking about
thinking".
EGOCENTRISM: Ans✓✓✓-the tendency to view everything in relationship to
oneself.
Element: ASSUMPTIONS/PRESUPPOSED Ans✓✓✓-Reasoning begins with our
assumptions. These encompass everything we take for granted as true in order to
figure out something else. Being able to identify assumptions (others' and our
own) is essential to critical thinking.
Element: CONCEPTS Ans✓✓✓-Reasoning takes form in concepts. Most of us take
our concepts for granted. Critical thinking requires us to be aware of the concepts
we hold and consider how they drive our reasoning.
Element: IMPLICATIONS/CONSEQUENCES Ans✓✓✓-
Element: INFERENCES Ans✓✓✓-
Element: INFORMATION Ans✓✓✓-
Element: POINT of VIEW Ans✓✓✓-
, Element: PURPOSE Ans✓✓✓-
Element: QUESTIONS Ans✓✓✓-
FAIR-MINDEDNESS: Ans✓✓✓-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.
FIRST-ORDER THINKING (ORDINARY THINKING): Ans✓✓✓-spontaneous and non-
reflective; contains insight, prejudice, good and bad reasoning indiscriminately
combined
IMPEDIMENTS/BAD HABITS TO SOUND THINKING: Ans✓✓✓-- 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
Intellectual Standard: Accuracy Ans✓✓✓-Questions focusing on making thinking
more accurate include:
- Is that really true?
- How could we check to see if that is accurate?
