CJS 225 Wk 4 - Concept Check

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CJS 225 Wk 4 - Concept Check

1. Question 1

Identify the type of generalization fallacy that appears in the following passage:

Overheard: "You don’t think this country is in a slump? Get real. George here was laid off before Memorial Day, and Howie’s wife and a whole bunch of other people lost their jobs when the Safeway over on Jeffrey closed down. These are tough times."

Accident

Hasty generalization

Exceptional cases

2. Question 2

Identify the type of fallacy that appears in the following passage: "Look, we make people buy liability car insurance, so there’s no reason to complain about making people buy liability insurance when they buy a gun." 

Weak analogy

Slippery slope

Mistaken appeal to authority

3. Question 3

Identify the type of fallacy that appears in the following passage: Evil spirits are making him sick.

Slippery slope

Hasty generalization

Untestable explanation

4. Question 4

Identify the type of fallacy that appears in the following passage: It was a mistake giving the Oscar to Daniel Day-Lewis. A survey the very next day showed more people thought Ben Affleck deserved it.

Show answer choices B

5. Question 5

Identify the type of fallacy that appears in the following passage: You start talking to these door-to-door missionaries, before you can blink they will be dragging you off to their church."

Slippery slope

Hasty generalization

Weak analogy

6. Question 6

Identify any formal fallacies or fallacies of language that appear in the following passage: If you are rich, then your car is something like a Mercedes or a Bentley. Oh! Is that your Bentley, you rich old thing, you? 

The undistributed middle

Denying the antecedent

Affirming the consequent

7. Question 7

Identify any formal fallacies or fallacies of language that appear in the following passage:

Mark: Jessica got low grades in this semester due to the recent demise of her father.

Judy: Oh, so now you're trying to excuse her low grades?

Confusing explanations with excuses

Confusing contraries and contradictories

Consistency and inconsistency

8. Question 8

Identify any formal fallacies or fallacies of language that appear in the following passage: Of course, the girl was carrying binoculars! The witness said he saw her with binoculars.

Miscalculating probabilities

Amphiboly

Composition

9. Question 9

Identify any formal fallacies or fallacies of language that appear in the following passage: Professor Stooler wants to conserve clean air and water. If that doesn’t make him a Conservative, I don’t know what does.

Division

Confusing explanations with excuses

Equivocation

1. Question 10

Identify any formal fallacies or fallacies of language that appear in the following passage: This institution is well known for its liberal thinkers. Therefore, each person in this institution is a liberal thinker.

Composition

Division

Confusing contraries and contradictories