WGU D265 Study Guide and Well Defined Terms
with Certified Solutions 2023-2024
Principle of Charity
- ✔- we should choose the reconstructed argument that gives the
benefit of the doubt to the person presenting the argument
confirmation bias
- ✔- a tendency to search for information that supports our
preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence
Alief
- ✔- An automatic belief-like attitude that can explain how our
instinctual responses can conflict with our reasoned-out beliefs.
representativeness heuristic
- ✔- A cognitive bias in which we categorize a new situation based on
the nearest prototype or experience in our mind.
anchoring bias
- ✔- a tendency to fixate on initial information, from which one then
fails to adequately adjust for subsequent information
, WGU D265 Study Guide and Well Defined Terms
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selection bias
- ✔- When the sample we generalize from is too small or is not
representative of the larger target population
selective reporting
- ✔- Reporting the same data in different ways to achieve different
rhetorical goals.
availability bias
- ✔- items that are more readily available in memory are judged as
having occurred more frequently
ad hominem
- ✔- a fallacy that attacks the person rather than dealing with the real
issue in dispute
Genetic Fallacy
- ✔- Condemning an argument because of where it began, how it
began, or who began it.
with Certified Solutions 2023-2024
Principle of Charity
- ✔- we should choose the reconstructed argument that gives the
benefit of the doubt to the person presenting the argument
confirmation bias
- ✔- a tendency to search for information that supports our
preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence
Alief
- ✔- An automatic belief-like attitude that can explain how our
instinctual responses can conflict with our reasoned-out beliefs.
representativeness heuristic
- ✔- A cognitive bias in which we categorize a new situation based on
the nearest prototype or experience in our mind.
anchoring bias
- ✔- a tendency to fixate on initial information, from which one then
fails to adequately adjust for subsequent information
, WGU D265 Study Guide and Well Defined Terms
with Certified Solutions 2023-2024
selection bias
- ✔- When the sample we generalize from is too small or is not
representative of the larger target population
selective reporting
- ✔- Reporting the same data in different ways to achieve different
rhetorical goals.
availability bias
- ✔- items that are more readily available in memory are judged as
having occurred more frequently
ad hominem
- ✔- a fallacy that attacks the person rather than dealing with the real
issue in dispute
Genetic Fallacy
- ✔- Condemning an argument because of where it began, how it
began, or who began it.
