PSYCH 240 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Wason Selection Task, Modus Tollens, Modus Ponens
12 Dec 2017
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Exam 3 - review sheet part 1. Conditionals: 4 argument types: modus ponens, modus tollens, denying the antecedent, affirming the consequent. Descriptive performance: which cards people tend to get wrong. How choosing the even number [4] card is like confirming hypotheses in science. Postal problem: evidence regarding concreteness and familiarity: performance of u. s. students and young. Need for rationale (more than just concreteness and familiarity): Performance of u. s. students who are given rationale. Evidence: people do better if looking for cheaters in cheater detection tasks (grover high school experiment). Role of language: if then statements the way they are used in everyday speech . How success at conditional reasoning depends on evoking a schema; lack of transfer. Skill learning: fitts and posner"s three stages: cognitive (declarative, attention, teaching). Associative (strengthen connections, eliminate errors), power law of learning: large initial improvements , smaller increments with more practice. Autonomous/automatic: fast, less attention, less verbalization, feedback less important/lower level, need for consistent practice.
