When Hans had tapped eight times their tension released and Hans stopped tapping his hoof. Similarly, when a teacher asks a question, everybody's face becomes more serious, including that of the teacher. The connection question-answer seems natural. However, from a critical thinking point of view it is almost, but not completely right. If an answer is provisionally accepted as the better answer, the critical thinker will come up with some interesting follow-up questions .
Curiosity is another immediate association with questioning.
Children and scientists are curious. They constantly pose questions, and seem never satisfied by an answer, but immediately raise a new follow-up question. Curiosity was associated with gluttony. Wonder was another association, connected with curiosity. To me, there is a difference between wonder and curiosity.