Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Inductive Reasoning, Mental Model, Mental Rotation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas-DeHoog

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Stumbling blocks in reasoning: some factors prevent us from selecting the info needed to draw sound conclusions. Distraction by irrelevant information: distinguishing relevant from irrelevant info can be challenging, see socks example on 326. Emotions and framing: we sometimes abandon logical reasoning in favour of relying on our emotions, reasoning can be affected by the particular way that info is presented to us, or. Problem solving: we use deductive and inductive reasoning to solve problems, has 4 steps, understanding, or framing, the problem. Initial understanding of a problem is a key step toward a successful solution. See train and crow example on 327. Outside-the-box thinking framing problems effectively in ways that differ from conventional expectations: generating potential solutions, testing the solutions. Test solutions, hypotheses, seeking to disconfirm one or more of them. Use a test that should give one result if one explanation is true and another result if a different explanation is true.