WGU C168 Critical Thinking Module 1 to 8 -with 2026-2027 15pages

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