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Mr. Doug Jones
Key Concepts
Question: What is the Key Concept? "confident and able to do things by yourself in your own way, without needing help or advice from other people"
Answer: Independent
Question: What is the Key Concept? "the information, skills, and understanding that you have gained through learning or experience."
Answer: Knowledge
Question: What is the Key Concept? "a process of thinking carefully about something in order to make a judgment"
Answer: reasoning
Question: What is the Key Concept? "facts or signs that show clearly that somethings exists or is true"
Answer: evidence
Question: What is the Key Concept? "to give a good and acceptable explanation for something"
Answer: To justify
Barriers
Question: Which persuasive technique appeals to feelings of special togetherness?
Answer: Language of Inclusion
Question: Which technique might use rhyme or repeated sounds to aid in memory?
Answer: Word play
Question: Which technique uses funny circumstances or jokes?
Answer: Appeal to humor
Question: Which technique would use words like "Best" and "Exciting"?
Answer: Exaggerated adjectives
Question: What's another word for an unfair generalization?
Answer: stereotype
Validity and Soundness
Question: True or False: A sound argument can be invalid.
Answer: False
Question: True or False: A valid argument need not be sound.
Answer: True
Question: True or False: An invalid argument might have true premises.
Answer: True
Question: True or False: A valid argument might have false premises.
Answer: True
Question: True or False: Every sound argument is valid.
Answer: True
Fallacies
Question: What is the name of the fallacy in which a generalization is based on insufficient evidence?
Answer: Hasty generalization
Question: What is the name of the fallacy of believing that if something happens frequently it will happen less in the future?
Answer: Gambler's fallacy
Question: What is the fallacy in which the claim to be proven is already assumed to be true?
Answer: Begging the question
Question: What is the fallacy in which a claim is rejected due to some unrelated fact about the presenter?
Answer: Against the Person
Question: What is the name of the fallacy in which a cause is falsely identified?
Answer: False Cause
Scientific Method
Question: In the scientific method, which comes first, the hypothesis or analysis?
Answer: hypothesis
Question: In the scientific method, which comes first, communicating results or background research?
Answer: Background research
Question: What should be the first word of a hypothesis?
Answer: "if"
Question: True or False: a theory is something one has before any experiments
Answer: false
Question: What do we call the act of watching, noting, and recording some phenomena with an instrument?
Answer: observation