WGU C168 FINAL PAPER QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
2025/2026 GRADED A+
✔✔Why is the interrelationship among thoughts, feelings, and wanting (motivation)
crucial to a critical thinker? - ✔✔recognize every feeling motivates an action and you
can analyze the thinking that underlies the emotion and want.
✔✔What is reasoning? - ✔✔Drawing conclusions based on reasons. (Making sense of
something)
✔✔What are the universal elements of critical thinking? - ✔✔Purposes, Information,
Questions, Concepts, Assumptions, Inferences, Implications, Points of View
✔✔Points of View - ✔✔From what perspective or angle is an issue being looked at or
characterized
✔✔Purpose - ✔✔the goal of reasoning - desired outcome
✔✔Question - ✔✔All reasoning is directed at some question. Learn how to clearly frame
a question, problem, or issue
✔✔Assumptions - ✔✔Reasoning begins with our assumptions
✔✔Implications - ✔✔extend beyond the position we reach from reasoning
✔✔Information - ✔✔Reasoning often follows from bad or incomplete info. Evaluate
information for accuracy and completeness
✔✔Concepts - ✔✔be aware of the concepts we hold and consider how they drive our
reasoning. (example: the equity of a new rule)
✔✔Inferences - ✔✔to come to a conclusion
✔✔True or False
The elements of reasoning function interdependently - ✔✔True
✔✔What is a key to critical thinking? - ✔✔To consciously realize the goals of thinking
✔✔True or False
An Inference is a mental step by which one concludes that something is true based on
something else being true - ✔✔True
✔✔What are 3 types of implications? - ✔✔Possible
Probable
, Necessary
✔✔What are the 9 Intellectual Standards? - ✔✔Clarity
Accuracy
Precision
Relevance
Depth
Breadth
Logic
Significance
Fairness
✔✔What are the 3 categories of questions? - ✔✔Fact
Preference
Judgement
✔✔What is Socratic questioning? - ✔✔A systematic, disciplined approach to asking
questions aimed at assessing truth.
✔✔What is a question of judgement? - ✔✔A question with competing and debatable
answers.
✔✔What are the 9 dimensions of decision-making? - ✔✔Figure out goals, purposes and
needs.
Take problems / decisions 1 by 1
Figure out the implications of alternatives
Figure out the information you need and seek it
Draw reasonable inferences
Figure out long & short term options
Consider Pros / Cons
Be strategic in decision-making
Monitor implications and adjust strategy as needed
✔✔What are the 7 dimensions of problem-solving? - ✔✔Figure out goals, purposes,
and needs
Identify your problems explicitly
Figure out info you need and actively seek it
Carefully analyze, interpret and evaluate info collected
Figure out your options for action
Adopt a strategic approach to the problem
When you act, monitor implications as they emerge
✔✔True or False: Identification involves looking at your irrational emotions or desires
and figuring out what is generating them. - ✔✔True
2025/2026 GRADED A+
✔✔Why is the interrelationship among thoughts, feelings, and wanting (motivation)
crucial to a critical thinker? - ✔✔recognize every feeling motivates an action and you
can analyze the thinking that underlies the emotion and want.
✔✔What is reasoning? - ✔✔Drawing conclusions based on reasons. (Making sense of
something)
✔✔What are the universal elements of critical thinking? - ✔✔Purposes, Information,
Questions, Concepts, Assumptions, Inferences, Implications, Points of View
✔✔Points of View - ✔✔From what perspective or angle is an issue being looked at or
characterized
✔✔Purpose - ✔✔the goal of reasoning - desired outcome
✔✔Question - ✔✔All reasoning is directed at some question. Learn how to clearly frame
a question, problem, or issue
✔✔Assumptions - ✔✔Reasoning begins with our assumptions
✔✔Implications - ✔✔extend beyond the position we reach from reasoning
✔✔Information - ✔✔Reasoning often follows from bad or incomplete info. Evaluate
information for accuracy and completeness
✔✔Concepts - ✔✔be aware of the concepts we hold and consider how they drive our
reasoning. (example: the equity of a new rule)
✔✔Inferences - ✔✔to come to a conclusion
✔✔True or False
The elements of reasoning function interdependently - ✔✔True
✔✔What is a key to critical thinking? - ✔✔To consciously realize the goals of thinking
✔✔True or False
An Inference is a mental step by which one concludes that something is true based on
something else being true - ✔✔True
✔✔What are 3 types of implications? - ✔✔Possible
Probable
, Necessary
✔✔What are the 9 Intellectual Standards? - ✔✔Clarity
Accuracy
Precision
Relevance
Depth
Breadth
Logic
Significance
Fairness
✔✔What are the 3 categories of questions? - ✔✔Fact
Preference
Judgement
✔✔What is Socratic questioning? - ✔✔A systematic, disciplined approach to asking
questions aimed at assessing truth.
✔✔What is a question of judgement? - ✔✔A question with competing and debatable
answers.
✔✔What are the 9 dimensions of decision-making? - ✔✔Figure out goals, purposes and
needs.
Take problems / decisions 1 by 1
Figure out the implications of alternatives
Figure out the information you need and seek it
Draw reasonable inferences
Figure out long & short term options
Consider Pros / Cons
Be strategic in decision-making
Monitor implications and adjust strategy as needed
✔✔What are the 7 dimensions of problem-solving? - ✔✔Figure out goals, purposes,
and needs
Identify your problems explicitly
Figure out info you need and actively seek it
Carefully analyze, interpret and evaluate info collected
Figure out your options for action
Adopt a strategic approach to the problem
When you act, monitor implications as they emerge
✔✔True or False: Identification involves looking at your irrational emotions or desires
and figuring out what is generating them. - ✔✔True
