WGU D265 Exam Prep (Latest 2023/ 2024 Update) Critical Thinking - Reason and Evidence | Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct| Grade A

WGU D265 Exam Prep (Latest 2023/ 2024

Update) Critical Thinking - Reason and

Evidence | Questions and Verified Answers|

100% Correct| Grade A

Q: Which piece of information would be the most helpful to know in assessing the credibility

of a news story?

Answer:

Whether the name of the author and the publication are identified

Q: Which questions are most appropriate for evaluating the credibility of an information

source?

Answer:

Who funded it? & does it try to get you to distrust other sources?

Q: While researching a topic on the internet, a student encounters two different websites, one of

that looks more official than the other and includes tables, charts, and statistics, while the other

does not.

What is the line of reasoning this student should employ to determine which site is more

credible?

Answer:

It is not feasible to determine which site is more credible from the information provided.

Q: In which way should an information source be approached if it is stating that it is the only

source of real information and that other sources cannot be trusted?

Answer:

Skeptically, because the source may lack credibility.

Q: Principle of charity

Answer:

The principle of charity suggests we should try to understand ideas before criticizing them.

Q: Which of the following are reasons for applying the principle of charity?

Answer:

It is morally right to give others the benefit of the doubt.

It allows for a clearer understanding of the issue.

Q: Smith is committed to the belief that technological advancement is always beneficial and

thus never detrimental to human life. Smith reads a carefully written and sufficiently argued

essay in which the author contends that the human adoption of any new technology involves both

advantages and disadvantages to its adopters. Since smith is a loyal technophile, smith accepts

the author's claims about the advantages of technology but rejects the author's claims about the

disadvantages of technology.

Which cognitive bias is smith demonstrating?

Answer:

Confirmation bias

Q: Confirmation bias

Answer:

The tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one's existing beliefs or theories.

Q: Cognitive bias

Answer:

A systematic thought process caused by the tendency of the human brain to simplify information

processing through a filter of personal experience and preferences.

Q: Heuristics

Answer:

Are practical rules of thumb that manifest as mental shortcuts in judgment and decision-making.

Q: Which sentence reflects strong critical thinking?

Answer:

"in any event, our purpose is to better understand the relevant issues so that we may make an

informed decision on the topic."

Q: Since inflation is rising rapidly, and because we are approaching the point at which reversal

is not possible, it follows that we need to institute a new economic policy, and we need to act

quickly. Which two statements contain premises of the given argument?

Answer:

We are approaching the point at which reversal is not possible. & inflation is rising rapidly.

Q: "products manufactured in our country are the best because we make the best automobiles,"

declared kennedy. Which two descriptors best characterize kennedy's comments?

Answer:

An inference & a weak argument & a proposition

Q: Which two sentences are propositions?