HSRT TEST PREP EXAM 2026 CLINICAL
REASONING AND CRITICAL THINKING
ASSESSMENT STUDY GUIDE COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉ slippery slope fallacy example Answer: "If I allow my son to
become an atheist, he'll start murdering people for fun! Nothing will
stop him from doing bad things, because he'll have no morals at all!"
◉ Appeal to Emotion Fallacy Answer: An appeal to emotion is an
effort to win an argument without facts, logic, or reason, but instead
by manipulating the emotions of the audience.
◉ appeal to emotion fallacy example Answer: Power lines cause
cancer. I met a little boy with cancer who lived just 20 miles from a
power line who looked into my eyes and said, in his weak voice,
"Please do whatever you can so that other kids won't have to go
through what I am going through." I urge you to vote for this bill to
tear down all power lines and replace them with monkeys on
treadmills.
◉ false cause fallacy Answer: using what you are trying to disprove.
That is, requiring the truth of something for your proof that it is
false. For example, using science to show that science is wrong. Or,
, arguing that you do not exist, when your existence is clearly
required for you to be making the argument.
◉ Ambiguity Fallacy Answer: A fallacy that occurs when a word
having more than one meaning appears in the argument to mislead
or misrepresent the truth
◉ ambiguity fallacy example Answer: "All beetles have six legs. John
Lennon is a Beatle, so John Lennon has six legs."
All living beings come from other living beings. Therefore, the first
forms of life must have come from a living being. That living being is
God.
Living being is not clear, a living being could be a bird, or a human.
It's not specific to God
◉ Assumption Answer: A claim that is accepted as the truth without
sufficient evidence
-Claims made without factual evidence
-Misleading
◉ Assumption Example Answer: -A DVD company relies on
continued demand for DVDs to survive.
REASONING AND CRITICAL THINKING
ASSESSMENT STUDY GUIDE COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉ slippery slope fallacy example Answer: "If I allow my son to
become an atheist, he'll start murdering people for fun! Nothing will
stop him from doing bad things, because he'll have no morals at all!"
◉ Appeal to Emotion Fallacy Answer: An appeal to emotion is an
effort to win an argument without facts, logic, or reason, but instead
by manipulating the emotions of the audience.
◉ appeal to emotion fallacy example Answer: Power lines cause
cancer. I met a little boy with cancer who lived just 20 miles from a
power line who looked into my eyes and said, in his weak voice,
"Please do whatever you can so that other kids won't have to go
through what I am going through." I urge you to vote for this bill to
tear down all power lines and replace them with monkeys on
treadmills.
◉ false cause fallacy Answer: using what you are trying to disprove.
That is, requiring the truth of something for your proof that it is
false. For example, using science to show that science is wrong. Or,
, arguing that you do not exist, when your existence is clearly
required for you to be making the argument.
◉ Ambiguity Fallacy Answer: A fallacy that occurs when a word
having more than one meaning appears in the argument to mislead
or misrepresent the truth
◉ ambiguity fallacy example Answer: "All beetles have six legs. John
Lennon is a Beatle, so John Lennon has six legs."
All living beings come from other living beings. Therefore, the first
forms of life must have come from a living being. That living being is
God.
Living being is not clear, a living being could be a bird, or a human.
It's not specific to God
◉ Assumption Answer: A claim that is accepted as the truth without
sufficient evidence
-Claims made without factual evidence
-Misleading
◉ Assumption Example Answer: -A DVD company relies on
continued demand for DVDs to survive.
