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WGU C168 Critical Thinking & Logic ALL VOCABULARY
WGU C168 Critical Thinking & Logic ALL VOCABULARY
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WGU C168 Critical Thinking &Logic ALL VOCABULARY
Accuracy - -Being near to the true value or meaning of something
-Assumptions - -Unstated or hidden beliefs that support our explicit
reasoning
-Clarity - -Being unambiguous and easily understood
-Implications - -What logically follows from reasoning
-Inference - -A logical process of drawing conclusions
-Point of View - -The particular perspective from which something is
observed or thought through
-Precision - -Being precise or exact
-Purpose - -The goal or objective of reasoning
-Analogy - -Inference that if 2 things are alike in one respect, they will be
alike in other respects
-Empirical - -Based on or derived from practical experiment and direct
observation
-Evidence - -Information that is provided to support the dependability of a
factual claim
-Factual Claims - -Beliefs about the way the world is, was, or will be whose
credibility depends on the quality of evidence offered to support them
-Faulty Analogy - -An analogy in which there are important relvant
dissimilarities between 2 things being compared
-Intuition - -An instinctive "knowing" that does not derive from a rational
intellectual process
-Neglect of a Common Cause - -The failure to recognize that 2 events may
be related through the effects of a common third factor
-Qualitative Evidence - -Evidence that describes an observation or
phenomenon and communicates its meaning
, -Quantitative Evidence - -Evidence that quantifies an observation or
phenomenon and is concerned with determining causation
-Research Sampling - -The process of selecting events or people to study
-Rival Cause - -A plausible alternative explanation for why a certain
outcome happened
-Survey - -A research method or instrument for measuring people's
attitudes or beliefs
-Absolute Number - -The total or aggregate of something, expressed as a
number without relationship to other numbers
-Line Graph - -A graph that plots the relationship between 2 or more
variables by using connected data points
-Mean - -The average derived by adding up all the values and dividing the
sum by the total number of values
-Median - -The average represented by the middle value in a series of
values
-Misinformation - -Incorrect or erroneous information
-Mode - -The value that appears most frequently in a seies of values
-Random Sample - -A study sample that is representative of the whole
population
-Statistical Distribution - -The frequency with which each value in a series of
values occurs
-Statistical Range - -The gap between the smallest and largest values in a
series of values
-Statistics - -The science of collecting, organizing, and analyzing
quantitative data
-Egocentric Hypocrisy - -Ignoring incosistencies between belief and
behavior and between public standards and private actions
-Egocentric Immediacy - -Overgeneralizing so that immediate events,
whether favorable or unfavorable, influence thinking
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