PSY30400 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Creative Problem-Solving, Illusory Correlation, Divergent Thinking
Take Home Points Exam 3
Creativity
• Creating new things that are useful
• Divergent thinking: thinking that is open-ended, involving a large number of potential
solutios
• Creative problem solving involves a process
Decisions: The process of making choices between alternatives
Reasoning: The process of drawing conclusions
• Decisions are based on judgments we make and applying these judgments involves
various reasoning processes
- Inductive Reasoning
• Primary mechanism involved in making judgments
• Reasoning based on observations
o reaching conclusions from evidence
• Basis of scientific investigations in which observations are made, data are collected, and
conclusions are drawn
• Conclusions we reach are probably but not definitely true
o (Jack likes the environment, but maybe he just liked the color)
• Factors that contribute to the strength of an inductive argument
o Representativeness of observations
▪ how well do observations of category represent all the members of that
category
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