Study Guide for Hour Exam 1

September 23, 2004

 

Here is what the first part of the exam looks like:

 

Hour Exam 1

Chapters 1 and 2 of Moore, Presentations on Poltergeists and Reincarnation, and Assigned Readings from Weird Things and Hines

September 27, 2004, 100 points (Scored on 90.)            Name __________________________

 

Directions:

 

The first section of this exam is Multiple Choice. Please record your responses on your Scantron 882 form. There is only one correct response to each multiple choice question.

The second section of the exam is essay. Please record your responses in the spaces provided on this exam.

 

Information: A list of the Informal Fallacies and some related critical tools introduced in this course:

Begging the Question (tautology)

False Dilemma

Equivocation (2 word meanings)

Composition (parts --> whole)

Division (whole --> parts)

Genetic Fallacy

Hasty Generalization

Faulty Analogy

Appeal to Authority

Appeal to the Masses

Appeal to Tradition

Appeal to Ignorance

Appeal to Fear

Appeal to the Person (ad hominem)

Straw Man Argument

Baloney Detection Kit

Burden of Proof

Issues, Premises, and Conclusions Inductive & Deductive

Induction to Best Inference

Argument by Analogy

Reductio ad absurdum

Reconstructed Memories

 

And now for the Study Guide...

 

The first 16 questions are multiple choice, each worth 4 points.

The last two questions are essay, worth 36 points.

I forgive 10% of the exam, so if you face something that baffles you, it may not hurt your score to skip it. Just donŐt do this more than 10% of the time!

 

We front loaded the course with a quick introduction to Baloney Detection Kits. Go over how we used this on our first Intelligent Ants exercise.

 

Go over all the stuff about what makes an Issue, an Argument, a Premise and a Conclusion. Check out those Fallacies in the table above and be sure you know what they are and when to apply them.

 

I have a couple of questions from the Powers of Ten movie. Check your notes on that for basic science concepts we will need in this course.

 

Go over those Applications we did from Moore. Things like Ňmissing premisesÓ may come back to haunt you (or maybe throw a breakable object).

 

Know how to distinguish Deductive from Inductive arguments. We did exercises on this.

 

I mentioned Burden of Proof on several occasions. Pay extra attention to this member of the list above.

 

DonŐt forget about the Chicken and the other features of Induction. My lecture slides are all on Blackboard.

 

Check to see if there is a Poltergeist in one of your Past Lives. (Review your presentation notes.)

 

In the essay section you will be asked to construct arguments in Standard Form, construct Analogy Tables (like in JoeŐs New Car), and write an argument by analogy.