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RLGN-105 MIDTERM EXAM LATEST 2024/2025
WITH ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
VERIFIED (DETAILED) ANSWERS/ALREADY
GRADED A
What is critical thinking? - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ A.
Recognizing and evaluating opinions and so-called
evidence
B. Reflecting on the meaning and significance of
statements/ideas
C. Tests the reasonableness of statements/ideas
Characteristics of C. Thinkers - .....ANSWER ...✔✔
Evaluate their own attitudes, values, opinions
LF (oversimplification) - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Concluding
that an effect has only cause when it is really the result
of multiple causes
LF (hasty conclusion) - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Making a
judgement on the basis of one or even a few samples
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LF (overgeneralization) - .....ANSWER ...✔✔
(Stereotyping) making a judgement about an entire
group based on behavior, mostly undesirable, of a few
from that group
LF (false analogy) - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Arguing on
the basis of a comparison of unrelated things
Slippery Slope - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ arguing against
an action on the unsupported assertion that it will
inevitably lead to a much worse condition
sweeping generalization - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ stating
a general principle and then applying it in a specific
case as though it were a universal rule
ad hominem - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ (To the man)Seeking
to discredit a person's argument by attacking their
personal character, origin, associations, etc.
appeal to (false/misleading) authority - .....ANSWER
...✔✔ appealing to the opinion of a person who
agrees with yours because they are generally respected
by the audience, but have no real authority on the topic
at hand
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appeal to ignorance - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ claiming
that something is true simply because it cannot be
disproved, or that something is untrue because it cannot
be proved
bandwagon - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ justifying a course
of action because everyone is doing it
is/ought or naturalistic fallacy - .....ANSWER ...✔✔
concluding about the way things ought to be simply on
the basis of how things are or are assumed to be
selective perception - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ looking only
for things that support our current ideas, and ignoring
evidence that does not
false dilemma - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ oversimplifying a
complex issue to make it appear that only two
alternatives are possible
red herring - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ raising an irrelevant
issue to draw attention away from the real issue
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straw man - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ misrepresenting a
position to make it seem weaker than it really is
genetic fallacy - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ giving credit to a
position or supporting a claim because of the origin of
the posiition when such an appeal to origin is irrelevant
3 major claims of differing worldviews - .....ANSWER
...✔✔ a. naturalism
b. pantheism
c. theism
secular ideologies - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ a. materialism
b. subjectivism
c. hedonism (sensual + rational)
d. pragmatism
3 criteria to determine a valid worldview - .....ANSWER
...✔✔ a. coherence
b. adequacy
c. relevance
RLGN-105 MIDTERM EXAM LATEST 2024/2025
WITH ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
VERIFIED (DETAILED) ANSWERS/ALREADY
GRADED A
What is critical thinking? - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ A.
Recognizing and evaluating opinions and so-called
evidence
B. Reflecting on the meaning and significance of
statements/ideas
C. Tests the reasonableness of statements/ideas
Characteristics of C. Thinkers - .....ANSWER ...✔✔
Evaluate their own attitudes, values, opinions
LF (oversimplification) - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Concluding
that an effect has only cause when it is really the result
of multiple causes
LF (hasty conclusion) - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Making a
judgement on the basis of one or even a few samples
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LF (overgeneralization) - .....ANSWER ...✔✔
(Stereotyping) making a judgement about an entire
group based on behavior, mostly undesirable, of a few
from that group
LF (false analogy) - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Arguing on
the basis of a comparison of unrelated things
Slippery Slope - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ arguing against
an action on the unsupported assertion that it will
inevitably lead to a much worse condition
sweeping generalization - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ stating
a general principle and then applying it in a specific
case as though it were a universal rule
ad hominem - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ (To the man)Seeking
to discredit a person's argument by attacking their
personal character, origin, associations, etc.
appeal to (false/misleading) authority - .....ANSWER
...✔✔ appealing to the opinion of a person who
agrees with yours because they are generally respected
by the audience, but have no real authority on the topic
at hand
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appeal to ignorance - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ claiming
that something is true simply because it cannot be
disproved, or that something is untrue because it cannot
be proved
bandwagon - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ justifying a course
of action because everyone is doing it
is/ought or naturalistic fallacy - .....ANSWER ...✔✔
concluding about the way things ought to be simply on
the basis of how things are or are assumed to be
selective perception - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ looking only
for things that support our current ideas, and ignoring
evidence that does not
false dilemma - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ oversimplifying a
complex issue to make it appear that only two
alternatives are possible
red herring - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ raising an irrelevant
issue to draw attention away from the real issue
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straw man - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ misrepresenting a
position to make it seem weaker than it really is
genetic fallacy - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ giving credit to a
position or supporting a claim because of the origin of
the posiition when such an appeal to origin is irrelevant
3 major claims of differing worldviews - .....ANSWER
...✔✔ a. naturalism
b. pantheism
c. theism
secular ideologies - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ a. materialism
b. subjectivism
c. hedonism (sensual + rational)
d. pragmatism
3 criteria to determine a valid worldview - .....ANSWER
...✔✔ a. coherence
b. adequacy
c. relevance
