Chapter 4 Practice Quiz

. The more evidence a claim has in its favour, the ________

. It is reasonable to accept evidence provided by a person's personal experience when ________

. Imagine you just won several coin tosses in a row. In the next toss, ________

. We should approach claims in advertisements by ________

. ________ is an example of a "weasel word."

. "Once you pop, you can't stop" (Pringles) is an example of ________

. The purpose of advertising is ________

. When taking a critical approach to reliability, or trustworthiness of a news source, one should ________

. What shows up in your Facebook "News feed" is determined by something called ________

. If there are 23 students, including you, in your classroom, the chance that at least two of the students have the same birthday is ________

. Pareidolia refers to the tendency to see what we expect to see.

. Most people are poor at estimating probabilities.

. In the fallacy of appeal to authority, one seeks out an authoritative source of information that is beyond one's own competence to judge.

. When assessing the reliability of information within a website, the presence of a biased viewpoint undermines the credibility of all of the information presented on the site.

. People are often guilty of fooling themselves because they fail to give evidence the consideration it deserves.

. "Virtually" is a weasel word.

. We generally have good reason to doubt advertising claims.

. Advertisers have an impeccable reputation for, and history of, being truthful and sincere.

. With regards to their attempts to influence, persuade, and manipulate us, advertisers have had an impressive degree of success.

. Catch phrases tell us a lot about a product, and can help us decide objectively which product is better than the others.

. If a claim conflicts with other claims we have good reason to accept, we have good grounds for ________

. When a claim is not quite dubious enough to dismiss outright yet not worthy of complete acceptance, we should ________

. Experts are more likely to be right because they have access to more information on the subject than we do and because ________

. We fall into a fallacious appeal to authority by ________

. Our perception and memory are constructive, which means that what we perceive and remember is to some degree ________

. Eyewitness testimony is often ________

. A good reason for doubting an expert is ________

. Thinking that previous events can affect the probabilities in the random event at hand is known as ________

. When we prefer only evidence that confirms our views, we are guilty of ________

. When we rely on evidence only because it is memorable or striking, we are guilty of ________

. The opinion of experts generally carries more weight than our own but only in their areas of expertise.

. The only available remedy for our tendency to resist contrary evidence is our commitment to critically examine our favourite claims.

. Expectation can cause us to misperceive.

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