WGU C168 CRITICAL THINKING AND LOGIC FINAL COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE EXAM PRE ASSESSMENT 2022/2023 QUARANTEED PASS
1. What is critical thinking?: An intellectual model for understanding issues and forming reasonable and
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WGU C168 CRITICAL THINKING AND LOGIC FINAL COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE EXAM PRE ASSESSMENT 2022/2023 QUARANTEED PASS
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)
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
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