C168 WGU Critical Thinking and Logic
June 2017
Clarity Correct Answer- Being unambiguous and easily understood
Purpose Correct Answer- The goal or objective of reasoning
Concepts Correct Answer- General categories or
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C168 WGU Critical Thinking and Logic
June 2017
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
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