Review for Logical Fallacy and Argument Test

"My opponent raises a really good point, but can we really trust him? He moved to this town three years ago and everyone knows his wife left him.

• scare tactic

• slippery slope

• hasty generalization

• ad hominem

I guess I should buy my 12-year-old daughter the new iPhone. Everyone at her school has one, and her favorite celebrity, Taylor Swift, says they are the best device for listening to her hit songs.

• sentimental appeal

• slippery slope

• bandwagon

• either/or

Charlie: Fast food is filled with salt, fat and sugar. We need to better regulate this industry.

Bob: Whatever, fatso! I just watched you devour a Triple-Baconator, super-sized fries and 64 ounces of pop.

• ad hominem

• appeal to false authority

• appeal to emotion

• scare tactic

My grandmother ate 10 cloves of raw garlic every day. Not surprisingly, she lived to be 102.

• straw man

• bandwagon

• appeal to old age

• post-hoc

If I don’t take this A.P. class, then I won’t do well on the exam. If I don’t do well on the A.P. exam, then I can’t get into a good college. If I can’t get into a good college, then I’ll never get a good job. If I can’t get a good job, then I’m going to have to live in my parents’ basement forever. Guess I’ll sign up for the A.P. class.

• hasty generalization

• ad hominem

• faulty causality

• slippery slope

We think this new MallTime game app will be a success because all little girls like shopping.

• slippery slope

• scare tactic

• appeal to false hope

• hasty generalization

If we lower the voting age to 16, pretty soon they’ll lower the drinking age to 16 too.

• Ad Hominem

• Straw Man

• Slippery Slope

• Red Herring

In U.S. presidential elections, you have to vote for either the Democrat or the Republican.

• Circular Reasoning

• Begging the Claim

• Ad Hominem

• Either/Or

You keep telling me that I need to eat healthier. I’m perfectly happy with myself the way I am, why don’t you like me for who I am too?

• Ad Hominem

• Red Herring

• Genetic Fallacy

• Moral Equivalence

Which logical fallacy presents information to distract from the main issue or argument being discussed.

• Red Herring

• Circular Reasoning

• False Analogy

• Straw Man