WGU C168 Critical Thinking and Logic |
Actual Questions and Answers Latest
Updated 2025/2026 (Graded A+)
Clarity - Correct Answer-Being unambiguous and easily understood
Purpose - Correct Answer-The goal or objective of reasoning
Concepts - Correct Answer-General categories or ideas by which we interpret or
classify information used in our thinking
Inference - Correct Answer-A logical process of drawing conclusions
Precision - Correct Answer-Being precise or exact
Implication - Correct Answer-What logically follows from reasoning
Assumptions - Correct Answer-Unstated or hidden beliefs that support our explicit
reasoning about something
Point of view - Correct Answer-The particular perspective from which something is
observed or thought through
Accuracy - Correct Answer-Being near to the true value or meaning of something
Egocentrism - Correct Answer-The tendency to view everything in relationship to
oneself and to regard one's own opinions, values, or interests as most important
Fair-mindedness - Correct Answer-The commitment to consider all relevant opinions
equally without regard to one's own sentiments or selfish interests
Fallacies - Correct Answer-Flaws or errors in reasoning which, when found in the
premise of an argument, invalidate its conclusion
Intellectual cowardice - Correct Answer-Fear of ideas or viewpoints that do not conform
to one's own
Intellectual empathy - Correct Answer-The act of routinely inhabiting the perspectives of
others in order to genuinely understand them
, Intellectual humility - Correct Answer-Openness to the possibility that one's beliefs are
mistaken and a willingness to reevaluate them in the face of new evidence or
persuasive counterarguments
Intellectual perseverance - Correct Answer-The act of working one's way through
intellectual complexities despite frustrations inherent in doing so
Second-order thinking - Correct Answer-Another term for critical thinking. It is first-order
thinking (or ordinary thinking) that is consciously realized (i.e., analyzed, assessed, and
improved)
First-order thinking - Correct Answer-Ordinary thinking that is spontaneous and non-
reflective, contains insight, prejudice and good and bad reasoning, and is
indiscriminately combined
Sociocentrism - Correct Answer-The assumption that one's own social group is
inherently superior to all others; seeing the social conventions, beliefs and taboos of
your society as the only correct way to live and think
Sophistry - Correct Answer-The ability to win an argument regardless of flaws in its
reasoning
Stereotype - Correct Answer-A fixed or oversimplified conception of a person, group, or
idea
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
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
Common factor method - Correct Answer-In analyzing causation, looking for a single
shared factor
Concomitant variation - Correct Answer-In analyzing causation, looking for a pattern of
variation between a possible cause and a possible effect
Process of elimination - Correct Answer-In analyzing causation, successively ruling out
non-causal factors until one correct causal factor remains
Question of fact - Correct Answer-A question with one correct answer
Question of judgment - Correct Answer-A question with competing and debatable
answers
Actual Questions and Answers Latest
Updated 2025/2026 (Graded A+)
Clarity - Correct Answer-Being unambiguous and easily understood
Purpose - Correct Answer-The goal or objective of reasoning
Concepts - Correct Answer-General categories or ideas by which we interpret or
classify information used in our thinking
Inference - Correct Answer-A logical process of drawing conclusions
Precision - Correct Answer-Being precise or exact
Implication - Correct Answer-What logically follows from reasoning
Assumptions - Correct Answer-Unstated or hidden beliefs that support our explicit
reasoning about something
Point of view - Correct Answer-The particular perspective from which something is
observed or thought through
Accuracy - Correct Answer-Being near to the true value or meaning of something
Egocentrism - Correct Answer-The tendency to view everything in relationship to
oneself and to regard one's own opinions, values, or interests as most important
Fair-mindedness - Correct Answer-The commitment to consider all relevant opinions
equally without regard to one's own sentiments or selfish interests
Fallacies - Correct Answer-Flaws or errors in reasoning which, when found in the
premise of an argument, invalidate its conclusion
Intellectual cowardice - Correct Answer-Fear of ideas or viewpoints that do not conform
to one's own
Intellectual empathy - Correct Answer-The act of routinely inhabiting the perspectives of
others in order to genuinely understand them
, Intellectual humility - Correct Answer-Openness to the possibility that one's beliefs are
mistaken and a willingness to reevaluate them in the face of new evidence or
persuasive counterarguments
Intellectual perseverance - Correct Answer-The act of working one's way through
intellectual complexities despite frustrations inherent in doing so
Second-order thinking - Correct Answer-Another term for critical thinking. It is first-order
thinking (or ordinary thinking) that is consciously realized (i.e., analyzed, assessed, and
improved)
First-order thinking - Correct Answer-Ordinary thinking that is spontaneous and non-
reflective, contains insight, prejudice and good and bad reasoning, and is
indiscriminately combined
Sociocentrism - Correct Answer-The assumption that one's own social group is
inherently superior to all others; seeing the social conventions, beliefs and taboos of
your society as the only correct way to live and think
Sophistry - Correct Answer-The ability to win an argument regardless of flaws in its
reasoning
Stereotype - Correct Answer-A fixed or oversimplified conception of a person, group, or
idea
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
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
Common factor method - Correct Answer-In analyzing causation, looking for a single
shared factor
Concomitant variation - Correct Answer-In analyzing causation, looking for a pattern of
variation between a possible cause and a possible effect
Process of elimination - Correct Answer-In analyzing causation, successively ruling out
non-causal factors until one correct causal factor remains
Question of fact - Correct Answer-A question with one correct answer
Question of judgment - Correct Answer-A question with competing and debatable
answers
