Final exam chapters 5 to 11

Question 1

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Answer 1

Slanting

Question 2

Advertisements which allay fears or satisfy desires

Answer 2

Promise Ads

Question 3

Advertisements which get you to identify with a product

Answer 3

Identification Ads

Question 4

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Answer 4

Euphemism

Question 5

Terminology

Answer 5

Political Correctness

Question 6

Occurs when the group from which one is drawing a generalization about the ‘target’ group is inadequate for assuring that the target will have the same trait or traits as our sample group.

Answer 6

Small Sample

Question 7

When there is insufficient reason to believe that the sample group is ‘relevantly like’ the target group.

Answer 7

Unrepresentative Sample

Question 8

Good reasons for thinking that two events/situations being compared are not relevantly similar.

Answer 8

Questionable Analogy

Question 9

Occurs in cases in which the statistics themselves are likely reliable, but they are being used to support a conclusion to which they are not really relevant.

Answer 9

Questionable Use of Statistics

Question 10

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Answer 10

Questionable Cause

Question 11

When there is good reason to believe that the conditions under which a statistic has been gathered to be suspect.

Answer 11

Questionable Statistics

Question 12

When questions are likely to uncover a desired result rather than objective findings.

Answer 12

Biased Poll Question

Question 13

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Answer 13

Quibbling

Question 14

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Answer 14

False Charge of Fallacy

Question 15

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Answer 15

Loyalty

Question 16

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Answer 16

Herd Instinct

Question 17

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Answer 17

Provincialism

Question 18

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Answer 18

Stereotypes

Question 19

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Answer 19

Prejudice

Question 20

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Answer 20

Scapegoating

Question 21

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Answer 21

Partisan Mindset

Question 22

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Answer 22

Wishful Thinking

Question 23

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Answer 23

Rationalization

Question 24

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Answer 24

Tone

Question 25

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Answer 25

Disclaimers

Question 26

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Answer 26

Weasel Words