Which of the following would be an example of "argument by anecdote"?
a. "My gut feeling is that it isn't the right time to get married."
b. "I know that marriage doesn't work out, because both of my uncles ended up divorced and alone."
c. "That is my opinion and nothing is going to change my mind."
d. "What evidence is there to support your claim?"
Answer: b
Psychology
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Which of these is not a memory process?
(a) storage (b) retrieval (c) generalization (d) encoding
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