WGU C168 (C168)

Which of the following statements best defines critical thinking? - Correct Answer-Thinking about thinking in order to make thinking better Critical Thinking involves _________________ one's own thinking - Correct Answer-analyzing, evaluating, and improving Which of the following is not a bad habit of thought? - Correct Answer-reasoning from assumptions that are not one's own Which term means the tendency to view everything in relationship to oneself? - Correct Answer-egocentrism I...

Critical thinking is comprised of 3 interlocking dimensions - Correct Answer-1- Analyzing 2- Evaluating 3-Improving Egocentrism - Correct Answer-the tendency to view everything in relationship to oneself Sociocentrism - Correct Answer-the assumption that one's own social group is inherently superior to all others First-Order Thinking - Correct Answer-ordinary thinking - spontaneous and non-reflective -contains insight, prejudice, good and bad reasoning - indiscriminately combined ...

A 55-year-old man went to see his doctor for a routine physical. The man's father had died from a heart attack at the age of 62, the man's older brother had died from a heart attack at age 63, and the man's grandfather had died from a heart attack at the age of 60. Therefore, the man inferred that he too could possibly die of a heart attack at a relatively young age based upon the assumption that genetic heart problems run in his family. Which one of the following statements would help e...