Persuasive Technique

The following statement is an example of what type of fallacy? "If we encourage elementary-school teachers to use hand-held devices in the classroom, the students will spend less time reading books. As a result, they will fall way behind in developing reading, writing, and thinking skills. Pretty soon we will have a generation of illiterates on our hands."

• invalid analogy

• bandwagon or appeal to popularity

• slippery slope

• red herring

• false dilemma

The set of three statements that exemplifies deduction (such as, "All DSC students are intelligent; Mary is a DSC student; therefore Mary is intelligent") is called

• An enthymeme

• A fallacy

• A generalization

• A syllogism

When the major premise of a deductive argument is omitted to cover the fact that the premise is a stereotype, untrue statement, or opinion, it is called

• An enthymeme

• A fallacy

• A generalization

• A syllogism

The following statement is an example of what type of fallacy? "Eliminating the space program is clearly the right thing to do. A recent poll by CBS polling organization showed that 65 percent of Americans thought we should abolish the program."

• bandwagon or appeal to popularity

• false dilemma

• hasty generalization

• false cause

• invalid analogy

What fallacy is committed in this argument? "I don't think that the checkout workers at Kroger are very friendly. I tried to strike up a conversation with one last week, and with one a month ago, and they did not respond."

• false cause

• hasty generalization

• argument from silence

• appeal to tradition

• appeal to authority

The following statement is an example of what type of fallacy? "We must either support the governor’s plan to increase taxes on food or we will never be able to balance the state budget."

• false dilemma

• faulty comparison

• hasty generalization

• invalid analogy

• bandwagon or appeal to popularity

"Wheaties cereal is the healthiest of the major brands of cereal. Basketball player Kyrie Irving says so." This quotation is an example of

• inappropriate appeal to authority

• appeal to pity

• Ad hominem

• Leading question

• appeal to majority

What kind of logical fallacy is this argument? "Governor Deal should not have been elected. After he was re-elected in 2014, the water bills of everyone in my neighborhood went up 20%."

• post hoc ergo propter hoc

• leading question

• appeal to pity

• ambiguity

• false analogy

What kind of reasoning is exemplified in the following statement? "Politicians who are guilty of corruption do not deserve to be reelected. Last year our U.S. representative was proved to be corrupt by her use of campaign donations for personal financial gain. Therefore, our U.S. representative does not deserve to be reelected."

• generalization

• sign

• deductive

• causal

• Analogical

What type of reasoning is being used in this example? "Chattanooga, Tennessee, has developed a high-speed Internet infrastructure. Since Macon, Georgia, is the same size and also a city in the South, it will be able to develop a successful high-speed Internet infrastructure."

• reasoning from specific instances (induction)

• causal reasoning

• reasoning by generalization

• analogical reasoning

• reasoning from principle (deduction)