WGU C168 CRITICAL THINKING AND LOGIC FINAL EXAM PRE ASSESSMENT 2022/2023
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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...
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)
, WGU C168 CRITICAL THINKING AND LOGIC FINAL EXAM
PRE ASSESSMENT 2022/2023
8. What is weak-sense critical thinking?: Thinkers ignore the flaws in
their own thinking and often seek to win an argument through
intellectual trickery and deceit
9. What is strong-sense critical thinking?: Thinkers strive to be ethical
and empathize with others' viewpoints. They will entertain arguments
with which they do not agree and change their views when confronted
with superior reasoning
10. What are the defining traits of critical thinkers?: 1. Intellectual
Humility
2. Intellectual Courage
3. intellectual Empathy
4. Intellectual Integrity
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5. Intellectual Perseverance
6. Confidence in Reasoning
7. Intellectual Autonomy
11. Characterization of Intellectual Humility: Aware of the limitations of
one's viewpoint
12. Characterization of Intellectual Courage: Confronting ideas, viewpoints,
or beliefs with fairness, even when doing so is painful
13. Characterization of Intellectual Empathy: Inhabiting the perspectives of
oth- ers in order to genuinely understand them
14. Characterization of Intellectual Integrity: Holding oneself to the same
rigor- ous intellectual standards that one expects others to meet
15. Characterization of Intellectual Perseverance: Not giving up when
confront- ed by complicated problems that don't lend themselves to
easy solutions
16. Characterization of Confidence in Reasoning: Encourages people to
arrive at their own conclusions through their own powers of rational
thinking
17. Characterization of Intellectual Autonomy: Thinking for oneself while
adher- ing to standards of rationality
18. What are some ways to improve your thinking?: 1. Use 'wasted' time
2. Handle one problem per day
3. Internalize intellectual standards
4. Keep an intellectual journal
5. Practice intellectual strategies
6. Reshape your character
7. Deal with your ego
8. Redefine the way you see things
9. Get in touch with your emotions
10. Analyze group influences on your life
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