QUIZ

Education in Malaysia aims to produce balanced individuals based on a firm belief in God. Which of the following represents the four dimensions of this balance?

• • Physical, Social, Mental, Spiritual

• Intellectual, Spiritual, Emotional, Physical (JERI)

• Cognitive, Ecological, Cultural, Economic

• Logical, Ethical, Aesthetic, Metaphysical

A social media user sees a public figure delete a post and immediately assumes they are "guilty" or "hiding something." This "inference to the best explanation" is known as:

• Deductive Reasoning

• Inductive Reasoning

• Abductive Reasoning

• Heuristic Thinking

Because users are exposed to massive amounts of information in short times, they often rely on "mental shortcuts" or "gut feelings" to make judgments. In Topic 5 and your report, this is called:

• Formal Fallacy

• Syllogism

• Heuristic Thinking

• Categorical Logic

A viral post claims: "90% of your friends have already shared this warning, so it must be true!" Which fallacy does this represent?

• Appeal to Emotion

• Bandwagon Fallacy (Argumentum ad Populum)

• Hasty Generalization

• Slippery Slope

"Confirmation Bias" is a psychological mechanism that functions as a fallacy. How is it defined in your research?

• Attacking the character of the person instead of the argument.

• Manipulating feelings like fear or pity to bypass rational deliberation.

• Selective thinking that focuses on evidence supporting existing beliefs while ignoring refuting evidence.

• Distorting an opponent's argument to make it easier to attack.

Which fallacy occurs when a news headline is designed to trigger "moral outrage" or "fear" to drive engagement instead of providing evidence?

• Appeal to Authority

• Appeal to Emotion

• Red Herring

• False Cause

If we verify a news story by checking if it "corresponds to external reality or facts," we are applying which theory of truth?

• Coherence Theory

• Pragmatic Theory

• Correspondence Theory

• Subjective Relativism