Genetic fallacy - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

SECTION 4: CRITICAL THINKING D265 WGU TEST QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS 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 bega...

Principle of Charity we should choose the reconstructed argument that gives the benefit of the doubt to the person presenting the argument confirmation bias a tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence Alief An automatic or habitual belief-like attitude which may or may not be in tension with the subject's explicit beliefs Heuristic a simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments ...

1 DIAGNOSIS AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY MIDTERM EXAM | QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (VERIFIED) | LATEST UPDATE | GRADED A+ Criteria to determine presence of psychopathology? Correct Answer: 1. Psychological dysfunction with cognitive processes and/or behavior and/or emotion 2. Distress and/or functional impairment in social and/or vocational and/or education and/or daily life 3. Culturally Unexpected When was the "birth date" of psychology? Correct Answer: 1886 Who was Wilhelm Wundt Correc...

Psychology - Chapter 10: Human Development Exam Questions With Correct Answers 100% Verified Developmental Psychology - answerStudy of how behavior changes over the life span. Post Hoc Fallacy - answerFalse assumption that because one event occurred before another event, it must have caused that event. Cross-Sectional Design - answerResearch design that examines people of different ages at a single point in time. Cohort Effect - answerEffect observed in a sample of participants that resu...

BIO 345 Final Exam | Questions and Answers (Complete Solutions) Which pattern best characterizes the history of extinctions on Earth? A. An increasing per capita background extinction rate B. Five major mass extinctions and several lesser episodes of heightened extinction rates C. Three major mass extinctions and several lesser episodes of heightened extinction rates D. Three major mass extinctions and a low background extinction rate E. An increase in the number of mass extinctions over time...

CRITICAL THINKING EXAM: Reason and Evidence D265 Already Passed 2023 A+ Which sentence is a non-proposition? - If the burglar did not go out the front door, they must have gone out a window. - The earth is the third planet from the sun. - Where are the keys to my car? - Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the world. *ANS* Where are the keys to my car? Did the company really close that deal? It has had a great year. Where is the president right now? Let's go ask whether the deal...

Motivation and Emotion Exam Questions and Answers All Correct A hedonist theory of motivation believes behaviour results from our - ANSWER pleasures and pains According to the typical definition, Motivation is about understanding the of behaviour - ANSWER Why Which his historical theory of human nature Descartes () most strongly associated with? - ANSWER Dualism Which of the common perspectives towards understanding motivated behaviour do NOT tend to take a strong mechanistic, determi...

Which sentence is a non-proposition? - If the burglar did not go out the front door, they must have gone out a window. - The earth is the third planet from the sun. - Where are the keys to my car? - Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the world. - answer-Where are the keys to my car? Did the company really close that deal? It has had a great year. Where is the president right now? Let's go ask whether the deal was closed. In the above paragraph, which sentence expresses a propo...

What is relative fitness? - correct answer the contribution an individual makes to the gene pool of the next generation relative to the contributions of other individuals Name the obstacles of passing on genes ("agents of selection") - correct answer Survival - find food, avoid predators/ parasites, compete/cooperate with others, protection from elements Reproduction - find mate, surplus energy to...

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...