Response to the following True & False and multiple choice questions:
1. Logical fallacies abuse the power of ethos appeals
True
False
2. Mister Smith believes the cause of the plane crash will never be found. "Amelia Earhart crashed, and no one ever discovered why that happened." This is an example of a
Straw Man.
Non Sequitur.
False analogy.
Guilt by association.
3. Some groups are convinced that it was a bomb that brought down the World Trade Center. Joe Smith claims that polls taken minutes after smoke came out of the towers indicate that more than 75% of Americans believed it was a bomb. "With so many people in agreement, how could they be wrong?" he asked. This is an example of a
Flattery fallacy.
Bandwagon fallacy.
Red Herring fallacy.
Either/or fallacy.
4. Either you have a Facebook account, or you're destined to be friendless for the rest of your life. This is an example of a
Poisoning the Well fallacy.
Bandwagon fallacy.
Non Sequitur fallacy.
Either/or fallacy.
5. A parent says to a child, "If you don't clean your room, you will not receive any gifts for your birthday." This is an example of a scare tactic fallacy
True
False
6. "You're a reasonable man. You'll have to vote for Candidate X. He's a reasonable man like you." This is an example of a stereotype fallacy
True
False
7. A child says to his parents, "Sure I flunked math class, but I cleaned my room!" This is an example of a
Red Herring fallacy.
Scare Tactic fallacy.
Self-Contradiction fallacy.
Hasty Generalization fallacy.
8. The following quote dates from the time of the Holocaust and can be found in Baynes, The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: "The influence of this intellectual Jewish class in Germany had everywhere a disintegrating effect" (p. 732). This is an example of
False Analogy.
Scapegoating.
Red Herring.
Begging the question.
9. The following quote is from a 2005 speech given by futurist James Kunstler: "No combination of alternative fuel systems currently known will allow us to run what we are running, the way we're running it, or even a substantial fraction of it." This is an example of
Group think.
False cause/effect.
Hasty generalization.
Flattery.
10. In his 2007 book, The Cult of the Amateur, Andrew Keen states, "[Wikipedia] is the blind leading the blind-infinite monkeys providing infinite information for infinite readers, perpetuating the cycle of misinformation and ignorance" (p. 4). This is an example of
Ad Hominem.
Slippery Slope.
Begging the Question.
Non Sequitur.