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D265 Section 4 (Fallacies) Questions and Answers 2023. D265 Section 4 (Fallacies) 1. Please enter your first and last name and today's date: * Red Herring Ad Hominem Appeal to Unqualified Authority Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc 2. Which of the following fallacies is NOT an example of "fallacies of relevance?" Straw Figure Texas Sharpshooter Hasty Generalization Appeal to Ignorance 3. Which of the following fallacies is NOT an example of "fallacies of weak induction?" 4. Which are t...

natural selection - ANSWER-survival of the fittest organisms based on their favorable heritable characteristics and being best adapted to the environment mechanism for evolution increased reproductive success of organisms with favorable heritable characteristics leading to a change in the genetic composition of a population over time Lamarackian explanation - ANSWER-stated that acquired characteristics were passed off to offspring "Theory of Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics" ...

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...

What is "the Pitch"? - Answer-What the text or piece of writing wishes you to believe. What are you doing when you seek to locate yourself in the local, the particular, and the concrete rather than the global, the overly general, and the abstract? - Answer-Paraphrasing Why is it important to learn the language of the text? - Answer-If a writer wishes to be heard, he or she needs to acquire the vocabulary of the experts. Is the Banking Model of Education encouraged by the textbook beca...

CSET Subtest 1: Reading, Language, and Literature (2023/2024) Rated A onset and rime parts of spoken language that are smaller than syllables but larger than phonemics phoneme the smallest part of SPOKEN language grapheme the smallest part of WRITTEN language phonics the fairly predictable relationship between phonemes and graphemes phonemic awareness the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds in spoken langauge onset the initial consonant sound of a syllable (in bag is...

Fallacies of Relevance - ANSWER-Arguments that are really distractions from the main point - Ad Hominem - Appeal of Consquences - Genetic Fallacy - Equivocation - Ad Populum - Irrelevant Appeals - ANSWER-Types of Fallacies of Relevance ad hominem attack - ANSWER-An attack on a person rather than his or her argument Genetic Fallacy - ANSWER-Condemning an argument because of where it began, how it began, or who began it. Irrelevant Appeals - ANSWER-attempt to sway the listener wi...

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 ...

WGU D265 Section 4: Critical Thinking Already Passed Fallacies of Relevance Arguments that are really distractions from the main point - Ad Hominem - Appeal of Consquences - Genetic Fallacy - Equivocation - Ad Populum - Irrelevant Appeals Types of Fallacies of Relevance 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 in...

Fallacies quiz (correct answer is highlighted) Directions: Please read the example and choose the fallacy that best describes the type of fallacious reasoning used. 1. “There are two types of students- the student that works really hard and does well and the student that does nothing and fails.” a. Either/Or Fallacy b. Slippery Slope c. Extravagant Hypothesis d. Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc 2. Robert made his first purchase on ebay and the package did not arrive on time. Robert says h...

Reading Fluency - Answer refers to the speed, inflection and accuracy with which students read, either orally or silently. In order to have this skill, students must be able to decode, or break down into segments, words that adhere to the common rules of the English alphabet. For those words that are not easily decoded, students must build their vocabulary of "sight words," which are recognized without the need to decode Shakespearean sonnet - Answer lyric poem of fourteen lines with the r...