CRITICAL THINKING AND LOGIC-C168
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What is critical thinking? - Answer ✅An intellectual model for understanding issues and forming
reasonable and informed views on them.
Involves analyzing, evaluating, and improving one's own thinking
Thinking about thinking in order to make thinking better
Critical thinking comprises three interlinking dimensions - Answer ✅1. Analyzing one's own
thinking- breaking it down into its component parts.
2. Evaluating one's own thinking- identifying its weaknesses while recognizing its strengths.
3. Improving one's own thinking- reconstructing it to make it better.
What are two barriers native to everyone? - Answer ✅egocentrism & sociocentrism
What is egocentrism? - Answer ✅The tendency to view everything in relationship to oneself
An innate human trait
@2025 Exam Material 1
,Rigidity of thought
What is sociocentrism? - Answer ✅The assumption that one's own social group is inherently
superior to all others
What is first-order thinking? - Answer ✅Ordinary Thinking
1. Spontaneous and non-reflective
2. Contains insight, prejudice, good and bad reasoning
3. Indiscriminately combined
What is second-order thinking? - Answer ✅Critical Thinking
First-order thinking that is consciously realized (i.e., analyzed, assessed, and reconstructed)
What is weak-sense critical thinking? - Answer ✅Thinkers ignore the flaws in their own thinking
and often seek to win an argument through intellectual trickery and deceit
What is strong-sense critical thinking? - Answer ✅Thinkers strive to be ethical and empathize
with others' viewpoints. They will entertain arguments with which they do not agree and
change their views when confronted with superior reasoning
What are the defining traits of critical thinkers? - Answer ✅1. Intellectual Humility
2. Intellectual Courage
3. intellectual Empathy
4. Intellectual Integrity
5. Intellectual Perseverance
6. Confidence in Reasoning
7. Intellectual Autonomy
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, Characterization of Intellectual Humility - Answer ✅Aware of the limitations of one's viewpoint
Characterization of Intellectual Courage - Answer ✅Confronting ideas, viewpoints, or beliefs
with fairness, even when doing so is painful
Characterization of Intellectual Empathy - Answer ✅Inhabiting the perspectives of others in
order to genuinely understand them
Characterization of Intellectual Integrity - Answer ✅Holding oneself to the same rigorous
intellectual standards that one expects others to meet
Characterization of Intellectual Perseverance - Answer ✅Not giving up when confronted by
complicated problems that don't lend themselves to easy solutions
Characterization of Confidence in Reasoning - Answer ✅Encourages people to arrive at their
own conclusions through their own powers of rational thinking
Characterization of Intellectual Autonomy - Answer ✅Thinking for oneself while adhering to
standards of rationality
What are some ways to improve your thinking? - Answer ✅1. Use 'wasted' time
2. Handle one problem per day
3. Internalize intellectual standards
4. Keep an intellectual journal
5. Practice intellectual strategies
6. Reshape your character
@2025 Exam Material 3
PRE-ASSESSMENT (LATEST EXAM 2025)
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS PASS
GUARANTEED 100% ✅
What is critical thinking? - Answer ✅An intellectual model for understanding issues and forming
reasonable and informed views on them.
Involves analyzing, evaluating, and improving one's own thinking
Thinking about thinking in order to make thinking better
Critical thinking comprises three interlinking dimensions - Answer ✅1. Analyzing one's own
thinking- breaking it down into its component parts.
2. Evaluating one's own thinking- identifying its weaknesses while recognizing its strengths.
3. Improving one's own thinking- reconstructing it to make it better.
What are two barriers native to everyone? - Answer ✅egocentrism & sociocentrism
What is egocentrism? - Answer ✅The tendency to view everything in relationship to oneself
An innate human trait
@2025 Exam Material 1
,Rigidity of thought
What is sociocentrism? - Answer ✅The assumption that one's own social group is inherently
superior to all others
What is first-order thinking? - Answer ✅Ordinary Thinking
1. Spontaneous and non-reflective
2. Contains insight, prejudice, good and bad reasoning
3. Indiscriminately combined
What is second-order thinking? - Answer ✅Critical Thinking
First-order thinking that is consciously realized (i.e., analyzed, assessed, and reconstructed)
What is weak-sense critical thinking? - Answer ✅Thinkers ignore the flaws in their own thinking
and often seek to win an argument through intellectual trickery and deceit
What is strong-sense critical thinking? - Answer ✅Thinkers strive to be ethical and empathize
with others' viewpoints. They will entertain arguments with which they do not agree and
change their views when confronted with superior reasoning
What are the defining traits of critical thinkers? - Answer ✅1. Intellectual Humility
2. Intellectual Courage
3. intellectual Empathy
4. Intellectual Integrity
5. Intellectual Perseverance
6. Confidence in Reasoning
7. Intellectual Autonomy
@2025 Exam Material 2
, Characterization of Intellectual Humility - Answer ✅Aware of the limitations of one's viewpoint
Characterization of Intellectual Courage - Answer ✅Confronting ideas, viewpoints, or beliefs
with fairness, even when doing so is painful
Characterization of Intellectual Empathy - Answer ✅Inhabiting the perspectives of others in
order to genuinely understand them
Characterization of Intellectual Integrity - Answer ✅Holding oneself to the same rigorous
intellectual standards that one expects others to meet
Characterization of Intellectual Perseverance - Answer ✅Not giving up when confronted by
complicated problems that don't lend themselves to easy solutions
Characterization of Confidence in Reasoning - Answer ✅Encourages people to arrive at their
own conclusions through their own powers of rational thinking
Characterization of Intellectual Autonomy - Answer ✅Thinking for oneself while adhering to
standards of rationality
What are some ways to improve your thinking? - Answer ✅1. Use 'wasted' time
2. Handle one problem per day
3. Internalize intellectual standards
4. Keep an intellectual journal
5. Practice intellectual strategies
6. Reshape your character
@2025 Exam Material 3
