First Acquisition of acknowledgement

Wouldn't you have to answer the question first? How could you question the answer before answering the question?

Neither. A common first thought is to question the question.
If the setting here is intended to be "philosophy of mind" you should note that its coherence has come under attack by Rorty and the post-modernists who point out that many of the so-called "questions about thought" can be dissipated from a "language games" perspective (following Wittgenstein).

depends on the question and depends on the answer to a said question