PSYCH207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Informa, Syllogism, Modus Ponens
22 Jul 2016
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Well, the term reason is often used interchangeably with the term thinking, so therefore, you"re going to notice a great deal of overlap between the types of processes tha t we talk about within reasoning, and those within thinking. However, researcher s that consider themselves working on problems of reasoning typically have specific areas in mind. So, when reasoning, we typically have one or more particular goal in mind. Reasoning also includes inferences or conclusions drawn form other information. Now, there are two main forms of reasoning that we"re going to be talking about. These are deductive reasoning and inductive reasoni ng. Now, in deductive reasoning, the information goes from the general to the specific. So, consider the following example: all college students like pizza. Kerri is a college student; therefore, kerri likes pizza. The final conclusion necessarily follows from the initial premises.
