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dmcintosh

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on: Jun 20, 2018
The tendency to think that a syllogism is valid if its conclusion is believable is called the .
 
  a. availability heuristic
  b. confirmatory bias
  c. belief bias
  d. mental set

Question 2

Consider the following syllogism: All of the students are tired. Some tired people are irritable. Some of the students are irritable. It is likely that most people will judge this syllogism as
 
  a. invalid because of the influence of the atmosphere effect.
  b. invalid because this syllogism does not involve a pragmatic reasoning schema.
  c. valid because this is indeed a valid syllogism and the logic is apparent.
  d. valid because this conclusion is believable.


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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

d


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Reply #2 on: Jun 20, 2018
Thank you


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Reply #3 on: Jun 20, 2018
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