WGU C168 CRITICAL THINKING AND LOGIC FINAL EXAM PRE ASSESSMENT 2022/2023

1. What is critical thinking?: 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 2. Critical thinking comprises three interlinking dimensions: 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. 3.What are two barriers native to everyone?: egocentrism & sociocentrism 4.What is egocentrism?: The tendency to view everything in relationship to oneself An innate human trait Rigidity of thought 5.What is sociocentrism?: The assumption that one's own social group is inher- ently superior to all others 6.What is first-order thinking?: Ordinary Thinking 1.Spontaneous and non-reflective 2.Contains insight, prejudice, good and bad reasoning 3.Indiscriminately combined 7. What is second-order thinking?: Critical Thinking First-order thinking that is consciously realized (i.e., analyzed, assessed, and reconstructed)