Fred Plays the Lottery Every Week

question 21

Multiple Choice

Fred plays the Lottery every week. He is very unhappy, and figures that winning the Lottery will make all his unhappiness go away. Fred is engaged in

• A) regression to the mean.
• B) affective forecasting.
• C) the conjunctive error.
• D) the gambler's fallacy.
• E) None of the above

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Definitions:

Middle Term

In logic, the term that appears in both premises of a syllogism but not in the conclusion, used to link the major and minor terms.

Propositions

Statements or assertions expressing a judgement or an opinion that can be either true or false.

Middle Term

In the context of a syllogism in logic, the middle term is the term that appears in both premises but not in the conclusion, serving as a link between the two terms that do appear in the conclusion.

Major Premise

In deductive reasoning, the overarching statement or proposition from which a logical conclusion is drawn.