I remember when my mother used some fallacy techniques to argue with me, and of course they worked. She used to tell me that I had to eat my entire plate before I could open my presents on Christmas eve. This tactic is the either-or techniue. She was able to reduce my options to only two choices, which obviously caused me to follow her every instruction, well at least around the holidays.

My high school Calculus teacher deducted points for students who did not contribute to their group activities with their fellow peers. The consequence for not participating within the group is an automatic letter grade deduction. This encourage other students within the group to try even harder. I believe this is a sense of a "slippery slope" technique. It worked to the point where all students worked harder and the number of students not participating decreased.

The attendance rule in a lot of our classes is like a fallacy. For people who care for their grade it effects them a lot. It encourages them to show up and attend the class regularly.

I believe drug campaign ads often use a pathos related fallacy when presenting their argument. For example, the commercials on tv make me think that anyone who smokes marijuana will also support terrorism, impregnate girls, and run over kids on bikes after ordering a hamburger. The advertisers are using scare tactics to prevent drug use in the community. Another situation one would use scare tactics is when dealing with religion. People will say "If you don't believe in God, then you are going to hell". This fallacy also uses scare tactics to promote fear in the non-believer.

Usually my out of state friends and I keep in touch through email. Every once in a while, someone will start off saying, "sorry this is so long" before they begin their story. Although their letter might be long they tend to apologize first as a way of pardoned themselves. This tactic falls underneath the Slight of Mind category.