Post hoc fallacy - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Developmental psychology - Answer-The study of how behaviour changes over an individual's lifespan Post Hoc Fallacy - Answer-(A then B) != (A causes B) Bidirectional Influences - Answer-Development influences experiences, experiences influence development Cohort Effect - Answer-Differences in groups due to growing up in a different era/time period The Influence of Early Development - Answer-Early input from the world is not more important than input at any other time Nature vs Nurture - ...

Developmental psychology - Answer The study of how behaviour changes over an individual's lifespan Post Hoc Fallacy - Answer (A then B) != (A causes B) Bidirectional Influences - Answer Development influences experiences, experiences influence development Cohort Effect - Answer Differences in groups due to growing up in a different era/time period The Influence of Early Development - Answer Early input from the world is not more important than input at any other time Na...

Post hoc ergo propter hoc: - Latin for "after, therefore because of," this fallacy occurs when one event that precedes a second event is assumed to have caused the second event. This fallacy resembles superstition. F For example, when a group of basketball fans believe that they caused their team to win by sitting in a specific arrangement while watching the game, their reasoning employs a post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy. They sat in a particular arrangement and then the team won, so cl...

WGU C168 Exam Indexical - Correct Answer-words whose meaning is dependant on context Attributes of critical thinker - Correct Answer-Open minded Creative Analytical Affirming the consequent - Correct Answer-Fallacy, if x then y, y therefore x Denying the antecedant - Correct Answer-Fallacy if x then y, not x therefore not y Affirming a disjunct - Correct Answer-Fallacy XvY, X therefore ~Y Denying a conjuct - Correct Answer-Fallacy ~(X&Y) , ~X therefore Y broken chain - Cor...

Appeal to Popularity correct answers Uses the popularity of a conclusion just to justify it. Appeal to History correct answers Uses past examples and cases to predict the future, i.e. because something has always happened it will continue to happen. Appeal to Tradition correct answers Justifies a conclusion because it's traditional, i.e. because it has been done in a certain way in the past it should continue to be done that way. Appeal to Authority correct answers Uses an authority fi...

WGU C168 Critical Thinking and Logic. Exam Preview Questions, latest Update. VERIFIED. Indexical - -words whose meaning is dependant on context Attributes of critical thinker - -Open minded Creative Analytical Affirming the consequent - -Fallacy, if x then y, y therefore x Denying the antecedant - -Fallacy if x then y, not x therefore not y Affirming a disjunct - -Fallacy XvY, X therefore ~Y Denying a conjuct - -Fallacy ~(X&Y) , ~X therefore Y broken chain - -fallacy if x then z, if...

WGU D265 Section 4: Critical Thinking Rated A+ Fallacies of Relevance Arguments that are really distractions from the main point Types of Fallacies of Relevance - Ad Hominem - Appeal of Consquences - Genetic Fallacy - Equivocation - Ad Populum - Irrelevant Appeals ad hominem attack An attack on a person rather than his or her argument Genetic Fallacy Condemning an argument because of where it began, how it began, or who began it. Irrelevant Appeals attempt to sway the listener with informat...

Cedarville University Essentials of Economics Quiz 1 All economic systems are equal in God's sight - False Methodological individualism is an economic assumption that the causal factor of economic action is the individual responding to incentives - True Plan coordination is the process of coordinating our plans to arrive at the party at the same time - False In communism, the party decides how to allocate capital and make production decisions; there is no role for entrepreneur...

Psychology 101 - Chapter 10zygote - correct answer Fertilized egg developmental psychology - correct answer Study of how behavior changes over time. post hoc fallacy - correct answer false assumption that because one event occured before another event, it must have cause that event cross-sectional design - correct answer Research design that examines people of different ages at a single point in time cohort effects - correct answer effects observed in a sample of participants th...

COMMRC 0310 FINAL QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS Plato View of Reality - Answer-Have to look beyond physical world Aristotle View of Reality - Answer-Look at world before us Aristotle 5 Subjects - Answer-Physics Metaphysics Nicomachean Ethics Politics The soul and poetics 4 Ways to Create Ethos - Answer-Actions Deeds Understanding Expertise Enhancing with Pathos - Answer-Combine with ethos or logos First sophists - Answer-People wanted to use rhetoric to con people Alea Iacta ...