CRITICAL THINKING AND LOGIC
- C168 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS GRADED
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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
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)
- C168 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS GRADED
A+
Your Exam Plug
, 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
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)
