We may sometimes try to compare apples to oranges, or try to make two situations seem more similar that they are. The same thing happens with people. The statements below and others like them are common in discussions of human behavior and psychology. Identify the fallacies they represent. If a child gets attention for crying, before long the child will be crying more and more and will start misbehaving in other ways to get attention.
Schizophrenia is either an inherited brain disease or the result of neglectful parenting.
Freud, after careful and extensive analysis of five of his patients, concluded that most peoples level of anxiety in life is motivated by unconscious, repressed impulses and memories. Since the therapists client had no memory of childhood abuse, she concluded that no abuse had ever taken place. The brains of elderly rats exposed to a boring, unchallenging environment shrink in size and weight, which is good argument for not putting elderly people in lifeless, unstimulating nursing homes. Parents who reward their children for good grades should recognize that bribing them wont make them like school. You can lead a horse to water but you cant make him drink.