Problemset Titlechapter 14 Pre-Testintroductory Text

Problemset TitleChapter 14 Pre-TestIntroductory Text

Question 1 Type: Multiple Choice The process of advancing claims supported by good reasons and allowing others to test those claims or to offer counterarguments is called Hint: Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As Feedback invention. Incorrect actualization. Incorrect argumentation. Correct stock issue analysis. Incorrect

Question 2 Type: Multiple Choice A claim of fact can be described as Hint: Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As Feedback asserting that something is or is not true. Correct asserting the intrinsic worth of a belief or action in question. Incorrect recommending a course of action that you want the audience to approve. Incorrect stating the obvious. Incorrect

Question 3 Type: Multiple Choice If you tried to convince your audience that most fast foods are high in calories, you would be presenting a claim of Hint: Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As Feedback fact. Correct value. Incorrect policy. Incorrect reasoning. Incorrect

Question 4 Type: Multiple Choice Which concerns about claims of fact should occur to a critical listener? Hint: Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded Feedback As asking if an action is needed, practical, beneficial, and superior to alternatives Incorrect assessing standards to judge something, and asking how well the item or issue measures Incorrect up to standards asking if better outcomes would come about if the proposed condition was met Incorrect measuring accuracy of claim, and assessing whether the facts fit the criteria Correct

Question 5 Type: Multiple Choice A claim of value can be described as Hint: Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As Feedback asserting that a given state of affairs exists or that something is indeed the case. Incorrect asserting the intrinsic worth of a belief or action in question. Correct recommending a course of action of which you want the audience to approve. Incorrect appealing to emotion. Incorrect

Question 6 Type: Multiple Choice Considering whether the benefits of a proposal exceed its costs or disadvantages is a relevant response to Hint: Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As Feedback a claim of fact. Incorrect a claim of value. Incorrect a claim of policy. Correct a claim of reasoning. Incorrect

Question 7 Type: Multiple Choice What provides the base of an argument? Hint: Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As Feedback the claim Incorrect the warrant Incorrect the motivation Incorrect the evidence Correct

Question 8 Type: Multiple Choice If your choice of evidence creates in your listeners a desire to become emotionally involved, we could say your evidence was Hint: Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As Feedback rationally relevant. Incorrect motivationally relevant. Correct ethically relevant. Incorrect argumentatively relevant. Incorrect

Question 9 Type: Multiple Choice Reasoning from examples is also called what kind of reasoning? Hint: Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As Feedback inductive Correct deductive Incorrect causative Incorrect significant Incorrect

Question 10 Type: Multiple Choice Reasoning from generalization is sometimes called Hint: Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As Feedback inductive reasoning. Incorrect causative reasoning. Incorrect deductive reasoning. Correct significant reasoning. Incorrect

Question 11 Type: Multiple Choice Ralph claims that the best program for a new fitness club would be one that is similar to two other popular fitness clubs in nearby towns. This would be an example of Hint: Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As Feedback reasoning from example. Incorrect reasoning from sign. Incorrect reasoning from parallel case. Correct reasoning from causal relation. Incorrect

Question 12 Type: Multiple Choice Telling an audience that children watching too much television will lead children to commit violent acts is an example of Hint: Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As Feedback reasoning from example. Incorrect reasoning from parallel case. Incorrect reasoning from sign. Incorrect reasoning from causal relation. Correct

Question 13 Type: Multiple Choice What type of reasoning did a candidate for city mayor use when she argued that a program to reduce homelessness would work in Chicago because it worked in Detroit? Hint: Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As Feedback causal Incorrect sign Incorrect generalization Incorrect parallel case Correct

Question 14 Type: Multiple Choice What key task must speakers who reason from generalization accomplish? Hint: Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As Feedback Determine whether the observation is reliable. Incorrect Determine if the evidence is reliable and applies to the case. Correct Determine if other reasons might exist for the observed change. Incorrect Determine if the similarities are relevant. Incorrect

Question 15 Type: Multiple Choice Adam read an article that suggested an increase in both cell phone use and in the incidence of brain tumors. Adam wants to claim that exposure to radiation from cell phones leads to an increase in brain tumors. What key questions will he need to consider in preparing his argument? Hint: Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded Feedback As Are the cases essentially alike and do commonalities outweigh differences? Incorrect Is the indicator reliable? Is the observation accurate? Incorrect Could something else account for the change? Was the source strong enough to produce Correct the change? Were enough cases examined and are they fair and representative? Incorrect

Question 16 Type: Multiple Choice A flaw in the rational properties of an argument is called Hint: Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As Feedback criticism. Incorrect generalization. Incorrect fallacy. Correct argumentation. Incorrect

Question 17 Type: Multiple Choice Deciding to drop out of school after failing one course is an example of Hint: Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As Feedback a hasty generalization. Correct a false division. Incorrect a genetic fallacy. Incorrect an appeal to ignorance. Incorrect

Question 18 Type: Multiple Choice Which fallacy makes a claim based on too little evidence? Hint: Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As Feedback appeal to authority Incorrect name-calling Incorrect bandwagon effect Incorrect hasty generalization Correct Question 19 Type: Multiple Choice "I became ill after eating lamb at a restaurant, so I will never eat lamb again." Which fallacy does this argument reflect? Hint: Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As Feedback appeal to ignorance Incorrect hasty generalization Correct appeal to authority Incorrect begging the question Incorrect

Question 20 Type: Multiple Choice "The First Amendment was framed by our forefathers to protect the states from federal control. It was never intended to prevent the states from controlling objectionable speech. Therefore, the states should be allowed to control obscene, offensive, and abusive speech." This argument, which is based on the origins of the First Amendment, reflects the fallacy of Hint: Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As Feedback hasty generalization. Incorrect genetics. Correct begging the question. Incorrect appeal to ignorance. Incorrect

Question 21 Type: Multiple Choice "I don't understand your argument and cannot imagine how it would work, therefore it can't be true," illustrates which fallacy? Hint: Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As Feedback appeal to ignorance Correct begging the question Incorrect transfer Incorrect red herring Incorrect

Question 22 Type: Multiple Choice Which fallacy appeals to popular opinion? Hint: Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As Feedback begging the question Incorrect bandwagon Correct hasty generalization Incorrect name-calling Incorrect

Question 23 Type: Multiple Choice "The Twins won the game because I wore my lucky shirt." What fallacy does this argument reflect? Hint: Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As Feedback hasty generalization Incorrect bandwagon Incorrect appeal to ignorance Incorrect sequential Correct

Question 24 Type: Multiple Choice A representative charges that his opponent is just a radio shock jock who decided to become a politician. What fallacy does this illustrate? Hint: Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As Feedback name-calling Correct appeal to ignorance Incorrect genetic Incorrect hasty generalization Incorrect

Question 25 Type: Multiple Choice Which tips for developing argumentative speeches are among those that your authors provide? Hint: Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded Feedback As avoid opponent's arguments, focus on one type of evidence, avoid personal attacks Incorrect vary evidence, ignore opponents' arguments, avoid personal attacks Incorrect use primacy-recency effects, attack opponents, use generalizations and fallacies Incorrect vary evidence, know opponents' arguments, practice argument construction and fallacy Correct detection