Unit 7 - Test Study Guide (Part 3)

Question 1

Persuades by appealing to the desire of being accepted by doing or thinking what other people are doing or thinking

Ex: Only cool upper-class graduates go to an elite four-year university right after high school

Answer 1

ad populum (bandwagon)

Question 2

Making a decision about something based on limited information

Ex: My two cousins said the swim classes at the YMCA are difficult. They will probably be difficult for me, too.

Answer 2

Hasty generalization

Question 3

Saying that because one event follows another, the first event is the cause of the second event; This fallacy is sometimes just shortened to “___ ___”

Ex: After I ate that hamburger, I came down with a cold. The hamburger must have caused the cold

Answer 3

post hoc ergo propter hoc(false cause)

Question 4

An irrelevant diversionary tactic; “Straw man” is one type of ___ ______

Ex: Person A: I think the Raiders will win this time. Person B: You just don’t have any loyalty to your home team, do you

Answer 4

Red herring

Question 5

Saying that a certain action will cause a series of inevitable events ending in a horrible consequence

Ex: If you hang out at that park, you will become a drug addict

Answer 5

Slippery slope