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WGU D265 – Questions With Complete Solutions
WGU D265 – Questions With Complete Solutions
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WGU D265 – Questions With Complete SolutionsPrinciple of Charity ✔️Ans - we should choose the reconstructed argument
that gives the benefit of the doubt to the person presenting the argument
confirmation bias ✔️Ans - a tendency to search for information that
supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence
Alief ✔️Ans - An automatic or habitual belief-like attitude which may or
may not be in tension with the subject's explicit beliefs
Heuristic ✔️Ans - a simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make
judgments and solve problems efficiently; usually speedier but also more
error-prone than algorithms
anchoring bias ✔️Ans - a tendency to fixate on initial information, from
which one then fails to adequately adjust for subsequent information
availability bias ✔️Ans - items that are more readily available in memory
are judged as having occurred more frequently
ad hominem ✔️Ans - a fallacy that attacks the person rather than dealing
with the real issue in dispute
Genetic Fallacy ✔️Ans - Condemning an argument because of where it
began, how it began, or who began it.
straw man fallacy ✔️Ans - instead of dealing with the actual issue, it attacks
a weaker version of argument
red herring fallacy ✔️Ans - when a speaker introduces an irrelevant issue
or piece of evidence to divert attention from the subject of the speech
appeal to authority fallacy ✔️Ans - error of accepting a claim merely
because an authority figure endorses it
Appeal to Force ✔️Ans - Arguer threatens reader/listener
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