A learning strategy called Suggestive Accelerative Learning
and Teaching Techniques has suggested that people using this method can learn anywhere from 25 to several hundred times their normal learning speeds. When this set of techniques is subjected to scientific scrutiny, however, such results are not achieved. Which critical thinking concept should this bring to mind?
A) Occam's Razor
B) Replicability
C) Extraordinary claims
D) Correlation versus causation
Answer: C
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a. falsely concluded that a treatment has an effect b. correctly concluded that a treatment has no effect c. falsely concluded that a treatment has no effect d. correctly concluded that a treatment has an effect
Wilma believed that her local senator was an honest, law-biding citizen. When he was indicted on charges of insider trading, she told all her friends there had been a mistake and he would soon be cleared. Finally, the senator confessed to the crimes and served time in prison. Through all of this, Wilma kept insisting he had been framed and was taking the blame to protect someone else. In this
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