PSYC 110 Final: Article Summaries.docx
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You should prevent logical and rhetorical fallacies: ad hominem: argument attacks messenger, not message, argument from authority: relies on the identity of an authority rather than the components of the argument itself (bible says something and it"s true because it"s the bible, argument from adverse consequences: if a statement that would create negative affects is said, then it must not be true, appeal to the ignorance: if something is not known to be false, it must be true, special pleasing: stating a universal principal, then insisting that it doesn"t apply to your assertions for some reason, begging the question/assuming the answer: a statement has an unproven premise, observational selection; looking at only positive evidence while ignoring the negative, statisitics of small numbers: using a small population to report large percentage increases, slippery slope: saying something is wrong because it is next to or loosely related to something.
