Quiz:

(1) When you arrive at your office, and find that the door has been opened; based upon your past experience, you conclude that the janitor is working inside right now. What type of reasoning are you utilizing to reach this conclusion?

A, Induction
B, Deduction

(2) A gym trainer is struggling to figure out whether he should quit the job he loves because he has the least clients among peer trainers. He thought that “All marketing strategies are to sell products that clients do not want, and I hate it. There is a specific way of marketing for gym trainers to promote their training programs. Therefore, I would not learn this marketing skill in my profession even if this means the decrease of the number of my clients.” What type of reasoning is this gym trainer using to reach his conclusion?

A, Induction
B, Deduction.

(3) If you get it correct on last question, how would you describe that gym trainer’s reasoning?

A, it is a valid and sound deductive reasoning.
B, It is a valid deductive reasoning because if the premises are true, the conclusion is true.
C, It is not a sound deductive reasoning because some premise of it is not true.

(4) Peter believes that a good child will get immediate approval from their parents about everything he or she has chosen or accomplished in the school. However, he chose a subject of study that he personally liked the most, but his parents do not quite approve of. Therefore, Peter conclude that he is not a good child. He feels deeply guilt about being so, and continually upsets himself whenever he is studying in the school. What kind of reasoning did Peter use to reach his conclusion?

A, induction.
B, deduction.

(5) How do you evaluate Peter’s emotion of guilt? Is it rational or irrational? Is it based upon a sound reasoning? What advice do you want to give to Peter? Please answer these questions using a couple of sentences.

(6) Please recall an event in your life which triggers a negative emotion from you. Can you uncover the emotional reasoning underlying the process, and evaluate it using the basics of logic you learned from this unit of the course? Please answer this questions using a couple of sentences.