If you appeal to someone’s feelings to gain acceptance of an argument, you are slipping into the logical fallacy of _____.

A. false cause and effect
B. unwarranted assumption
C. personal attack
D. emotional appeal


Answer: D

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A baby identified as small-for-gestational-age (SGA) would be:

a. born before 37 weeks. b. born before 39 weeks and under 3.3 pounds. c. born close to the due date but under 5.5 pounds. d. born weighing less than 3.3 pounds (1500 g).

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After the first month of school, Mr. Lennox places a suggestion box in his classroom and encourages students to drop suggestions anonymously into the box. He opens the box at the end of the week and reads a note suggesting that he stop lecturing. The student says that lectures put him or her to sleep

Mr. Lennox wants students to learn history. He realizes the value of the declarative knowledge he is presenting, and he wants it to hold meaning for his students.Mr. Lennox shows you the suggestion and asks for recommendations. As his colleague, you are in a position to help. What, besides lecturing, might Mr. Lennox do in his teaching to help students create semantic memory of historical events? What might Mr. Lennox do in his teaching to help students create episodic memory of historical events? What will be an ideal response?

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The supervisor presented the expected criteria and the time frame for the implementation of the new literacy strategy to be used by all the first grade class teachers. Which of the supervisory behavior was used?

a. Directing b. Problem Solving c. Reinforcing d. Standardizing

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Suffixes are difficult mainly because they

A. appear primarily in technical terms. B. rarely occur. C. have many meanings. D. are hard to separate from the root word.

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