Critical Think and Logic - C168 (WGU)
Exam 2026 Questions and Answers
Graded A+
Critical Thinking - Correct answer-is an intellectual model for understanding issues
and forming reasonable and informed views on them
Analyzing your own thinking and breaking down your thoughts into its component
thoughts - Correct answer-What is the first step of critical thinking?
Evaluating your own thinking and identifying its weakness while recognizing its
strengths - Correct answer-What is the second step of critical thinking?
Improving your own thinking and reconstructing it to make it better - Correct
answer-What is the third step of critical thinking?
critical thinking - Correct answer-is to analyze, assess, and reconstruct ones own
thinking in order to improve its quality
egocentrism and sociocentrism - Correct answer-Critical thinking demands
commitments to surmounting what two barriers that are native to everyone?
,egocentrism - Correct answer-or the tendency to view everything in relationship to
oneself
sociocentrism - Correct answer-or the 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
Indiscriminately combined
second order thinking (critical thinking) - Correct answer-First order thinking that
is consciously realized (i.e., analyzed, assessed, and reconstructed).
weak sense critical thinking - Correct answer-Thinking that does not consider
counter viewpoints, that lacks fair-mindedness and that uses critical thinking skills
simply to defend current beliefs.
strong sense critical thinking - Correct answer-Thinking that uses critical thinking
skills to evaluate all beliefs, especially one's own, and that pursues what is
intellectually fair and just.
d. strive to be ethical - Correct answer-Which of the following do weak-sense
thinkers NOT do?
,a. employ lower-level rhetorical skills
b. employ emotionalism
c. hide or disort evidence
d. strive to be ethical
a. critical thinking skills are never used selfishly - Correct answer-Which of the
following statements is false?
a. critical thinking skills are never used selfishly
b. strong-sensed critical thinking implies higher-order thinking
c. weak-sense thinkers ignore the flaws in their thinking
d. strong-sense critical thinkers will listen to opposing arguments
fair mindedness - Correct answer-The commitment to consider all relevant
opinions equally without regard to one's own sentiments or selfish interests.
fair mindedness - Correct answer-To bring an unbiased and unprejudiced
perspective to all viewpoints relevant to a situation
intellectual unfainess - Correct answer-What is the opposite of fair mindedness?
, intellectual unfairness - Correct answer-feel no responsibility to represent
viewpoints with which they disagree fairly and accurately. You always see yourself
right and just
intellectual humility - Correct answer-Commitment to discovering the extent of
one's own ignorance on any issue.
Recognition that one does not—and cannot—know everything.
Consciousness of ones biases and prejudices.
Aware of the limitations of ones viewpoints.
Intellectual arrogance - Correct answer-What is the opposite of Intellectual
Humility?
fair minded thinker - Correct answer-means habitually applying the standards of
reasoning to ones own thinking in an effort to improve it
intellectual arrogance - Correct answer-overestimation of how much one knows
Exam 2026 Questions and Answers
Graded A+
Critical Thinking - Correct answer-is an intellectual model for understanding issues
and forming reasonable and informed views on them
Analyzing your own thinking and breaking down your thoughts into its component
thoughts - Correct answer-What is the first step of critical thinking?
Evaluating your own thinking and identifying its weakness while recognizing its
strengths - Correct answer-What is the second step of critical thinking?
Improving your own thinking and reconstructing it to make it better - Correct
answer-What is the third step of critical thinking?
critical thinking - Correct answer-is to analyze, assess, and reconstruct ones own
thinking in order to improve its quality
egocentrism and sociocentrism - Correct answer-Critical thinking demands
commitments to surmounting what two barriers that are native to everyone?
,egocentrism - Correct answer-or the tendency to view everything in relationship to
oneself
sociocentrism - Correct answer-or the 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
Indiscriminately combined
second order thinking (critical thinking) - Correct answer-First order thinking that
is consciously realized (i.e., analyzed, assessed, and reconstructed).
weak sense critical thinking - Correct answer-Thinking that does not consider
counter viewpoints, that lacks fair-mindedness and that uses critical thinking skills
simply to defend current beliefs.
strong sense critical thinking - Correct answer-Thinking that uses critical thinking
skills to evaluate all beliefs, especially one's own, and that pursues what is
intellectually fair and just.
d. strive to be ethical - Correct answer-Which of the following do weak-sense
thinkers NOT do?
,a. employ lower-level rhetorical skills
b. employ emotionalism
c. hide or disort evidence
d. strive to be ethical
a. critical thinking skills are never used selfishly - Correct answer-Which of the
following statements is false?
a. critical thinking skills are never used selfishly
b. strong-sensed critical thinking implies higher-order thinking
c. weak-sense thinkers ignore the flaws in their thinking
d. strong-sense critical thinkers will listen to opposing arguments
fair mindedness - Correct answer-The commitment to consider all relevant
opinions equally without regard to one's own sentiments or selfish interests.
fair mindedness - Correct answer-To bring an unbiased and unprejudiced
perspective to all viewpoints relevant to a situation
intellectual unfainess - Correct answer-What is the opposite of fair mindedness?
, intellectual unfairness - Correct answer-feel no responsibility to represent
viewpoints with which they disagree fairly and accurately. You always see yourself
right and just
intellectual humility - Correct answer-Commitment to discovering the extent of
one's own ignorance on any issue.
Recognition that one does not—and cannot—know everything.
Consciousness of ones biases and prejudices.
Aware of the limitations of ones viewpoints.
Intellectual arrogance - Correct answer-What is the opposite of Intellectual
Humility?
fair minded thinker - Correct answer-means habitually applying the standards of
reasoning to ones own thinking in an effort to improve it
intellectual arrogance - Correct answer-overestimation of how much one knows
