WGU C168 Critical Thinking and Logic
Module 1 well answered
Critical Thinking is... - correct answer ✔✔The art of thinking about thinking while thinking in
order to make thinking better
3 steps of critical thinking - correct answer ✔✔-Analyze one's own thinking - break it down into
component parts
-Evaluate one's own thinking - identify its weaknesses and strengths
-Improve one's own thinking - reconstruct it to make it better
The goal of critical thinking is... - correct answer ✔✔To bring one's best thinking to bear in every
realm of one's life and in any set of circumstances one faces
Barriers to sound thinking include... - correct answer ✔✔-Making generalizations unsupported
by evidence
-Letting stereotypes affect 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
Critical thinking is... - correct answer ✔✔-self-directed
-self-disciplined
-self-monitored
-self-corrected
, It must overcome egocentrism and sociocentrism
Egocentrism - correct answer ✔✔The tendency to view everything in relationship to oneself
Sociocentrism - correct answer ✔✔The assumption that one's own social group is inherently
superior to all others
The benefits of critical thinking are... - correct answer ✔✔-It raises important questions
-It gathers and assesses relevant information
-It reaches well-reasoned conclusions and solutions
-It helps to think open-mindedly
-It helps to communicate effectively with others
First-order (ordinary) thinking is... - correct answer ✔✔-Spontaneous and non-reflective
-Contains insight, prejudice, good and bad reasoning
-Indiscriminately combined
Second-order (critical) thinking is... - correct answer ✔✔First order thinking that is consciously
realized (i.e. it is analyzed, assessed, and reconstructed).
Weak sense critical thinkers... - correct answer ✔✔Ignore the flaws in their own arguments and
instead seek to win arguments by being deceitful
Strong sense critical thinkers... - correct answer ✔✔Strive to be ethical and empathetic, will
entertain arguments with which they don't agree, seek to win arguments through better
reasoning, aim for fair mindedness
Module 1 well answered
Critical Thinking is... - correct answer ✔✔The art of thinking about thinking while thinking in
order to make thinking better
3 steps of critical thinking - correct answer ✔✔-Analyze one's own thinking - break it down into
component parts
-Evaluate one's own thinking - identify its weaknesses and strengths
-Improve one's own thinking - reconstruct it to make it better
The goal of critical thinking is... - correct answer ✔✔To bring one's best thinking to bear in every
realm of one's life and in any set of circumstances one faces
Barriers to sound thinking include... - correct answer ✔✔-Making generalizations unsupported
by evidence
-Letting stereotypes affect 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
Critical thinking is... - correct answer ✔✔-self-directed
-self-disciplined
-self-monitored
-self-corrected
, It must overcome egocentrism and sociocentrism
Egocentrism - correct answer ✔✔The tendency to view everything in relationship to oneself
Sociocentrism - correct answer ✔✔The assumption that one's own social group is inherently
superior to all others
The benefits of critical thinking are... - correct answer ✔✔-It raises important questions
-It gathers and assesses relevant information
-It reaches well-reasoned conclusions and solutions
-It helps to think open-mindedly
-It helps to communicate effectively with others
First-order (ordinary) thinking is... - correct answer ✔✔-Spontaneous and non-reflective
-Contains insight, prejudice, good and bad reasoning
-Indiscriminately combined
Second-order (critical) thinking is... - correct answer ✔✔First order thinking that is consciously
realized (i.e. it is analyzed, assessed, and reconstructed).
Weak sense critical thinkers... - correct answer ✔✔Ignore the flaws in their own arguments and
instead seek to win arguments by being deceitful
Strong sense critical thinkers... - correct answer ✔✔Strive to be ethical and empathetic, will
entertain arguments with which they don't agree, seek to win arguments through better
reasoning, aim for fair mindedness
