WGU C168 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS 2025/2026 GRADED A+
✔✔Evidence and reasoning within multiple systems. Competing answers. Reasoned
judgement. More than one answer, with some better than others. - ✔✔Questions of
judgement
✔✔In analyzing causation, looking for pattern of variation between possible cause and
possible effect (e.g. Exposing lab animals to different strains of tropical microbe to see
which are likely to cause sickness) - ✔✔Concomitant variation
✔✔Thinking you understand information, but you don't and can't use it. - ✔✔Inert
information
✔✔Bringing significant ideas and knowledge into the mind and being able to apply
them, systematically, to new situations. - ✔✔Activated knowledge
✔✔Conclusion or outcome of reasoning. - ✔✔Inference
✔✔Dismissing an argument by attacking the person who offers it rather than refuting its
reasoning. - ✔✔Ad hominem
✔✔Adopting an overly narrow point of view and thinking in absolutes. - ✔✔Egocentric
myopia
✔✔Involves developing tools of critical thinking and applying them to whatever
challenges you encounter in the future. - ✔✔Deep learning
✔✔Assumptions - ✔✔a thing that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without
proof. what we take for granted as being true when we formulate or accept an
argument.
✔✔Inferences - ✔✔A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning. we
find the inference/conclusion when we identify what the communicator is trying to
persuade us to accept.
✔✔Authority - ✔✔A reliable, respected source—someone with knowledge.
✔✔point of view - ✔✔the vantage point from which a story is told
✔✔Transparency - ✔✔How easy is it to trace the origins of the information? Are there
citations or references? Can other researchers access the information (especially
important with primary source documents)?
SOLUTIONS 2025/2026 GRADED A+
✔✔Evidence and reasoning within multiple systems. Competing answers. Reasoned
judgement. More than one answer, with some better than others. - ✔✔Questions of
judgement
✔✔In analyzing causation, looking for pattern of variation between possible cause and
possible effect (e.g. Exposing lab animals to different strains of tropical microbe to see
which are likely to cause sickness) - ✔✔Concomitant variation
✔✔Thinking you understand information, but you don't and can't use it. - ✔✔Inert
information
✔✔Bringing significant ideas and knowledge into the mind and being able to apply
them, systematically, to new situations. - ✔✔Activated knowledge
✔✔Conclusion or outcome of reasoning. - ✔✔Inference
✔✔Dismissing an argument by attacking the person who offers it rather than refuting its
reasoning. - ✔✔Ad hominem
✔✔Adopting an overly narrow point of view and thinking in absolutes. - ✔✔Egocentric
myopia
✔✔Involves developing tools of critical thinking and applying them to whatever
challenges you encounter in the future. - ✔✔Deep learning
✔✔Assumptions - ✔✔a thing that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without
proof. what we take for granted as being true when we formulate or accept an
argument.
✔✔Inferences - ✔✔A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning. we
find the inference/conclusion when we identify what the communicator is trying to
persuade us to accept.
✔✔Authority - ✔✔A reliable, respected source—someone with knowledge.
✔✔point of view - ✔✔the vantage point from which a story is told
✔✔Transparency - ✔✔How easy is it to trace the origins of the information? Are there
citations or references? Can other researchers access the information (especially
important with primary source documents)?
