Intuition
Uses advanced pattern recognition
How does emotional intuition work
Deciding something just because “this is the way we have always done it”.
What is Appeal to Tradition?
Someone makes a general statement based on an insufficient or nonrepresentative sample, rather than looking at a broader range of available data.
What is Hasty Generalization?
Free from errors, mistakes, or distortion.
What is accuracy?
Learning that involves taking responsibility for your own acquisition and analysis of factual information from which you will learn.
What is Self-Directed Learning
A person who processes the world through the use of the mind.
What is a mental intuitive person?
Arguing that just because something is the case, that it ought to be the case.
What is Ought Fallacy?
An argument in which a complex problem is presented as having only two solutions when there are in fact many.
What is Either/Or Fallacy?
To break up a whole into its parts, to examine in detail so as to determine the nature of, to look more deeply into an issue or situation
What is analyzing?
The process in which we use reasoning consistently to arrive at a conclusion.
What is logical thinking?
Formulating a complex or unlikely explanation for an event when a simpler explanation would do
What is Extravagant Hypothesis
Ron has either a very strong proposal or a very weak proposal. Ron does not have a very strong proposal. Therefore, Ron has a very weak proposal.
What is Either/or fallacy
Teenager tells his mom "all my friends have cellphones, so I should have one too". He has fallen prey to which fallacy?
bandwagon appeal
Giving reasons to support our views without getting our egos involved in what they are saying
What is to argue?
Five step process related to logical thinking.
What is the SMART process?
An error in logic that assumes the cause of something is another thing that merely occurred earlier.
What is Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc?
A reason or reasons offered for or against something, the offering of such reasons.
What is an argument?
Women in the United States are paid less than men. Therefore, my mom must make less money than my dad. This describes which fallacy?
What is Fallacy of Division?
To take for granted or to presuppose
What is to assume?
Cognitive compression mechanism used to break down huge pieces of information into smaller more easily remembered pieces.
What is chunking?
Once someone asks for one thing, they will not end until they have taken everything.
What is Slippery Slope
A sentence having two or more possible meanings.
What is Ambiguous or Vagueness?
A statement accepted or supposed as true without proof or demonstration, an unstated premise or belief
What is assumption?
The power or supposed right to give commands, enforce obedience, take action, or make final decisions
What is authority?
Failing to make productive use of all the time we have at our disposal.
What is wasted time?