ENG 102 study guide

Explicit Bias

• Attitudes and beliefs (positive or negative) about other people, ideas, issues that occur outside of our conscious awarness and control which affect our opinions and behavior
• Attitudes and beliefs (positive or negative) that we consciously or deliberately hold and express about a person or group.
• Subconscious tendency to seek and interpret info and other evidence in ways that afirm our existing beliefs, ideas, etc.

Implicit Bias

• Attitudes and beliefs (positive or negative) about other people, ideas, issues that occur outside of our conscious awarness and control which affect our opinions and behavior
• Attitudes and beliefs (positive or negative) that we consciously or deliberately hold and express about a person or group.
• Subconscious tendency to seek and interpret info and other evidence in ways that afirm our existing beliefs, ideas, etc.

Confirmation Bias

• Attitudes and beliefs (positive or negative) about other people, ideas, issues that occur outside of our conscious awarness and control which affect our opinions and behavior
• Attitudes and beliefs (positive or negative) that we consciously or deliberately hold and express about a person or group.
• Subconscious tendency to seek and interpret info and other evidence in ways that afirm our existing beliefs, ideas, etc.

Selective Perception

• Makes you ignore information around you and shift your attention to things your mind tells u to.
• Attitudes and beliefs (positive or negative) about other people, ideas, issues that occur outside of our conscious awarness and control which affect our opinions and behavior
• Subconscious tendency to seek and interpret info and other evidence in ways that afirm our existing beliefs, ideas, etc.

Fundamental attribution error

• We cling to the first piece of information we get
• Continuing with something because you have invested time or money in it.
• the way people behave is the result of their innate characteristics and overrate the influence of their personality.

Clustering effect

• grouping similar words or sounds together in a sentence or text
• the way people behave is the result of their innate characteristics and overrate the influence of their personality.
• We cling to the first piece of information we get

Ethos

• Credibility and Ethics
• Emotions and feelings
• Logic and Reason

Pathos

• Credibility and Ethics
• Emotions and feelings
• logic and reason

Logos

• Credibility and Ethics
• Emotions and feelings
• logic and reason

Ad hominem

• using personal insults to attack the opponent instead of addressing the argument itself.
• Appealing to popularity or the fact that many people do something as an attempted form of validation
• States that something is false because it has not been prove true or vice versa.
• appealing to someone emotional circuits instead of presenting facts