01 - WGU - C168 - Critical Thinking -
Module 1 questions n answers
Critical thinking comprises three interlinking dimensions - correct answer ✔✔Analyzing,
evaluating, and improving
Critical thinking is characteristically - correct answer ✔✔self-directed, self-disciplined, self-
monitored, and self-corrective
Stereotype - correct answer ✔✔A fixed or a oversimplified conception of a person, group, or
idea
Egocentrism - correct answer ✔✔the tendency to view everything in relationship to oneself
Sociocentrism - correct answer ✔✔assumption that one's own social group is inherently
superior to all others
First-order thinking (ordinary thinking) - correct answer ✔✔Spontaneous and non-reflective,
contains insight, prejudice, good and bad reasoning
Second-order thinking (critical thinking) - correct answer ✔✔First-order thinking that is
consciously realized (i.e., analyzed, assessed, and reconstructed)
Weak sense critical thinkers - correct answer ✔✔Ignore the flaws in their own thinking, Often
seek to win an argument through intellectual trickery or deceit.
Module 1 questions n answers
Critical thinking comprises three interlinking dimensions - correct answer ✔✔Analyzing,
evaluating, and improving
Critical thinking is characteristically - correct answer ✔✔self-directed, self-disciplined, self-
monitored, and self-corrective
Stereotype - correct answer ✔✔A fixed or a oversimplified conception of a person, group, or
idea
Egocentrism - correct answer ✔✔the tendency to view everything in relationship to oneself
Sociocentrism - correct answer ✔✔assumption that one's own social group is inherently
superior to all others
First-order thinking (ordinary thinking) - correct answer ✔✔Spontaneous and non-reflective,
contains insight, prejudice, good and bad reasoning
Second-order thinking (critical thinking) - correct answer ✔✔First-order thinking that is
consciously realized (i.e., analyzed, assessed, and reconstructed)
Weak sense critical thinkers - correct answer ✔✔Ignore the flaws in their own thinking, Often
seek to win an argument through intellectual trickery or deceit.
