Psychology 3130A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Deductive Reasoning, Classical Conditioning, Centrality

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3130A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

Document Summary

Learning from the past (like induction, making sense of surroundings, looking to infer cause and effect. Induction: similarity (to some extent, cause and effect is built on top of really basic associative learning (classical conditioning etc. ) Inductive and deductive logic is more abstract, causal reasoning has to do with learning what predicts something else. Turning the switch causes the light to come. Yes sort of, but there are other things that happen too. It links the two but there are other conditions. The light switch doesn"t cause the light come on, it causes the circuit to be completed which then allows the light to come on. And you can cause the light to come in other ways, and sometimes it doesn"t come on (i. e. power out, light bulb burnt out) = breakdown in causality: no direct causality, it"s indirect enabling condition. This is where the problem comes from. Lots of things are correlated but not all things correlated are causal.