Graduate Student Karen Koolray Submitted Her MA Thesis to Her

question 56

Multiple Choice

Graduate student Karen Koolray submitted her MA thesis to her supervisor.When Karen's supervisor returned her thesis,it contained a margin note that indicated Karen had committed the fallacy of misplaced concreteness.Which of the following points in Karen's paper was this criticism most likely referring to?

• A) The conclusion that undergraduate research textbooks reinforce sexist assumptions about intellectuals
• B) The observation that female researchers' work is referenced in undergraduate research textbooks 18.364928 percent less than male researchers' work
• C) The claim that undergraduate research textbooks can be studied with only existing statistics
• D) The claims that approximately 308 undergraduate research textbooks are published each year and that this will not change for at least 10 years
• E) The assumption that data from the international Learning Materials Survey accurately represents the content of undergraduate research methods textbooks

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Definitions:

Mental Grouping

The cognitive process of organizing concepts, objects, or ideas into categories based on common properties to simplify understanding and memory.

Step-by-Step

Involves breaking down information, processes, or problems into smaller, manageable parts to facilitate understanding or completion.

Belief Perseverance

Clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited.

Availability Heuristic

Estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind (perhaps because of their vividness), we presume such events are common.