Critical Thinking Vocabulary

A ____________ is a saying that sells something.

• Stereotype

• Testimonial

• Fallacy

• Slogan

This is to reduce hard problems to easy answers.

• Evade

• Simplify

• Persuade

• Generalize

To ____________ is to try to convince someone.

• Persuade

• Generalize

• Evade

• Simplify

This means thinking and good judgement.

• Alternative

• Analogy

• Reasoning

• Fallacy

____________ is reasoning that puts fact together to make a decision.

• a Stereotype

• Inductive Reasoning

• Deductive Reasoning

• an Alternative

This is something that is not true.

• Slogan

• Stereotype

• Fallacy

• Generalization

Being unreasonable and lacking sense is ____________.

• Illogical

• Persuading

• Generalizing

• Logical

This is a talk in favor of something.

• Reasoning

• Analogy

• Slogan

• Testimonial

To ____________ is to make a guess based on a small amount of information.

• Generalize

• use Reasoning

• Persuade

• Simplify

This is a similarity between two different things.

• Deductive Reasoning

• Analogy

• Stereotype

• Fallacy