Pt2

Question 1

Argument

Answer 1

Made up of statements, commands, questions, & exclamations, are not statements

Question 2

Statements

Answer 2

Arguments stored into different element

Question 3

Premises

Answer 3

Statements that answer the WHY question

Question 4

Assumptions

Answer 4

Statements that are unproven no evidence is presented; often accepted as true by everyone involved in a discussion or situation

Question 5

Self fulling prophecy

Answer 5

Tendency to act in a way that leads us to find what we expect to find

Question 6

Hawthorne Effect (Reactivity)

Answer 6

Whenever people are aware that they are being studied their are lively to alter their behavior

Question 7

Retrospective Research

Answer 7

An event has occurred the researcher looks back in time to try & determine cause

Question 8

Prospective research

Answer 8

Factors we are interested in studying are identified & then looking forward we determine if the hypothesized event exists

Question 9

Fundamental Attribution Error

Answer 9

People have tendency to attribute others actions to ( personality traits), as opposed to situational factors (external circumstances)

Question 10

Counter arguments

Answer 10

To weaken an attack on the argument cuz they allow the person to voice a response to them
- one sided

Question 11

Soundness

Answer 11

Measures the quality of a deductive argument

1. ) deductive
2. ) valid
3. ) have all true premises

Question 12

Deductive

Answer 12

_____________arguments go from general statements to specific statements (general premisesspecific conclusions).

Question 13

Inductive

Answer 13

• _____________arguments go from specific
statements to general statements (specific premisesgeneral conclusions).

Question 14

Valid

Answer 14

__________arguments are sometimes flawed, but they always have the following characteristic: if you could show that the premises were all true, then the conclusion would always have to be true

Question 15

Besides premises and conclusions, name and describe the 3 other components of arguments

Answer 15

Counter arguments

Assumptions

Qualifiers

Question 16

List 4 of the 5 questions you’d ask yourself when determining the credibility of an expert?

Answer 16

Does the expert have expertise in the same field in which he/she is providing testimony?
• Does he/she have expert credentials?
• Does he/she have specific and firsthand knowledge of the matter upon which expert testimony is being given?
• Is the expert using appropriate, accepted, standard methods of analysis?
Is the expert an independent party?

Question 17

What are the 5 aspects you should consider when evaluating information on the internet?

Answer 17

• Authority
  • Accuracy
  • Objectivity

- Currency
• Coverage

Question 18

This type of research is more powerful than the type above. In this type, factors we are interested in studying are identified and then looking forward we determine if the hypothesized event (relationship) exists.

Answer 18

Prospective Research

Question 19

A weakness of this type of research is that it is subject to memory distortion.

Answer 19

Retrospective Research

Question 20

Confounding variables (extraneous)

Answer 20

A variable that we have not explicitly considered or controlled that
affects our results in some way.