MHTC 340 MIDTERM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Spirituality - Answers -Universal and fundamental human quality involving the search for
meaning, purpose, morality. wellbeing, profundity in relationships with selves, others,
and ultimate reality.
An internal experience with external intent.
Circular Argument - Answers -states a conclusion as part of the proof of the argument
Straw Man - Answers -A fallacy that occurs when a speaker chooses a deliberately poor
or oversimplified example in order to ridicule and refute an idea.
Red Herring - Answers -A fallacy that introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention
from the subject under discussion
Slippery Slope - Answers -A fallacy that assumes that taking a first step will lead to
subsequent steps that cannot be prevented
Religion - Answers -Institutionalized and systematic pattern of values, beliefs, symbols,
behaviors, and experiences that are oriented toward spiritual concerns shared by a
community and transmitted over time in traditions.
Fundamentalism - Answers -Conservative view of religious heritage more commonly
used to describe a narrow belief system that tends to be intolerant of religious beliefs
that differ and may have sectarian tendencies.
Critical Thinking - Answers -The conscious, deliberate process of evaluating arguments
in order to make reasonable decisions about what to believe about ourselves and the
world as we perceive it.
Formal Fallacy - Answers -Breakdown in how you say something, ideas ordered wrong.
Informal Fallacy - Answers -Errors in content
Hasty Gneralization - Answers -Fallacy in which the conclusion is not logically justified
by sufficient or unbiased evidence ex: making conclusion based on a small sample size.
False Cause - Answers -Fallacy of presuming that a real or perceived relationship
between things means that one is the cause of the other
argumentum ad hominem - Answers -AKA abusive fallacy, attack on the person.
Hypocrite Fallacy - Answers -Fallacy that tries to discredit validity of argument by
asserting failure to act consistently in accordance with conclusion.
Argumentum ad populum - Answers -AKA appeal to the people
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