1. Critical Thinking
JEOPARDY!

2. Attacking the person instead of their argument is what type of fallacy?
Ad Hominem

3. Another name for the fallacy of “Non Sequitur” is
Irrelevant Reason

4. When a term is used in an argument two ways with different meanings this is called
Equivocation

5. If I assume that because my monthly payments for a car are low, the total cost is low I am guilty of the fallacy of
Composition

6. Attacks on a person’s character are never relevant. True or False?

7. When we assume that some parts of an item have a property because the whole item does, it is a called the fallacy of
division

8. When we label something as the cause of something else on the basis of insufficient evidence we commit the fallacy of
Questionable cause

9. When we reason that the 2012 Olympics will be as fun as the 2008 Olympics, we reason by
Analogy

10. Large enough and representative
When we do a poll what are two things we should keep in mind about the sample we select. It should be --?
Large enough and representative

11. Judging someone’s guilt based on the company that person keeps is
Guilt by Association

12. Believing that something is true because there is no good evidence that it is false
Appeal to ignorance

13. Objecting to a course of action on the grounds that once it is taken, others are bound to be taken and leading to a step that is not justified
Slippery Slope

14. False charge of fallacy
When someone changes their mind and you accuse them of a fallacy it is called
False charge of fallacy

15. The tendency to keep our beliefs and our actions within the bounds of what society will accept.
Herd instinct

16. One who is blamed for all the ills of the world
scapegoat

17. Consciously believing at a deeper level what we know to be dubious
Self-deception

18. A psychological ploy we use to justify to justify our actions however wrong
rationalization

19. Providing a statistic that is very precise when in reality we only can estimate it approximately is called
Disestimation

20. Self-deception – consciously hat consciously believing what at a deeper level we know to be dubious. what a deeper level we know to be dubious.
Self-deception

21. Self-deception – consciously hat When we assume that all members of a group have a certain characteristic this is calleda deeper level we know to be dubious.
Stereotyping

22. Self-deception – consciously hat Only selecting data that is favorable to your argument is called deeper level we know to be dubious.
Cherry-picking

23. Self-deception – consciously hat Why are you giving me a ticket for going the wrong way on a one-way street? Didn’t you see that red sedan I was following was doing the same thing?” What type of fallacy is this?
Two Wrongs

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