Written Assignment Unit 1 The case study of Fatima, who is a 30 year old single mother of 2 young children and works 50 hours a week in order to support and care for her family, demonstrates several psychological constructs including social norms, habits, delayed help seeking, quality of life and health outcomes. Although Fatima does not smoke, her choice of eating processed foods instead of fresh fruits and vegetables because of food costs, and avoiding seeing a doctor when she suffered from occasional
The fallacies present were mostly Argumentum ad Hominem, Argumentum ad Misericordiam, Argumentum ad Populum and Argumentum ad Baculum. Let’s start with the Argumentum ad Hominem. In real life, the usual court hearings use the ad Hominem attacks because it is more likely to win an argument if you’re going to destroy your opponents’ credibility. There were a lot of witnesses who had experienced ad hominem attacks, but this one has caught my attention and I will use
logical fallacies are arguments that pose as psychologically convincing but are not strong logically. In essence a logical fallacy makes people accept certain arguments and conclusions that would usually not be The argumentum ad hominem is the argument directed at a particular person. The ad hominem is referenced as a fallacy that neither the speaker's character nor the settings reveal any facts regarding the validity or the invalidity of the argument offered by the speaker or whether the speaker's conclusion
User Stephen Hill posts a different view: The monarchy is unelected which renders it unaccountable, and this is extremely undemocratic. It should, therefore be abolished. It's [sic] survival is based on a good PR machine, which seeks to personalise it. As an essentially feudal institution it has no place in our society, nor in our epoch. We have enough celebrities already. (Hill 2015) The preceding argument is weak based on an error in fact and the fallacy of the sweeping generation. It is the
A fallacy is defined as a mistake in an argument that arises from defective reasoning or the creation of an illusion that makes a bad argument appear good. In layman terms, Dictionary.com defines a fallacy as a deceptive, misleading or false notion, belief, etc. It is a misleading or unsound argument. Both inductive and deductive arguments may contain fallacies and if they do, they are usually uncogent or unsound. Fallacies are divided into two groups which are formal fallacy and informal fallacy