(Top 2024/2025 EXAM REVIEW PAPER ) WGU - C168 - Critical Thinking - Module 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8. Exam Questions and answers, 100% Accurate.

WGU - C168 - Critical Thinking - Module 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8. Exam Questions and answers, 100% Accurate. Critical thinking comprises three interlinking dimensions - -Analyzing, evaluating, and improving Critical thinking is characteristically - -self-directed, self-disciplined, self-monitored, self-corrective Stereotype - -A fixed or a oversimplified conception of a person, group, or idea Egocentrism - -the tendency to view everything in relationship to oneself Sociocentrism - -assumption that one's own social group is inherently superior to all others First-order thinking (ordinary thinking) - -Spontaneous and non-reflective, contains insight, prejudice, good and bad reasoning Second-order thinking (critical thinking) - -First-order thinking that is consciously realized (i.e., analyzed, assessed, and reconstructed) Weak sense critical thinkers - -Ignore the flaws in their own thinking, Often seek to win an argument through intellectual trickery or deceit. Strong sense critical thinkers - -Consistent pursuit of what is intellectually fair and just, strive to be ethical Fair mindedness - -The commitment to consider al relevant opinions equally without regards to one's own sentiments or selfish interests. Intellectual unfairness - -Feel no responsibility to represent viewpoints with which they disagree fairly and accurately Intelectual humility - -Commitment to discovering the extent of one's own ignorance on any issue Intellectual arrogance - -Overestimation of how much one knows Intellectual Courage - -Confronting ideas, viewpoints, or beliefs with fairness, even when doing so is painful Intellectual cowardice - -Fear of ideas that do not conform to one's own Intellectual Empathy - -Inhabiting the perspectives of others in order to genuinely understand them Intellectual self-centeredness - -Thinking centered on self Intellectual Integrity - -Holding oneself to the same rigorous intellectual standards that one expects others to meet Intellectual dishonesty - -Marked by contradictions and inconsistencies of which the perpetrator is unconscious Intellectual Perseverance - -Working one's way through intellectual complexities despite frustrations inherent in doing so, Not giving up when confronted by complicated problems that don't lend themselves to easy solution