PSYCH 1F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Problem Solving, Inductive Reasoning, Deductive Reasoning
12 Feb 2019
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Cognitive ability of an individual to learn from experience, to reason well, to remember important information, and to cope with demand of daily living. Intelligence involves the ability to perform cognitive tasks. The capacity to learn from experience and adapt. Problem solving is one of the tasks that captures the element of operational definition of intelligence. Two broad strategies used to solve problems. Occurs when a person works from ideas and general information to arrive at specific conclusions. Moving from specific facts and observations to broader generalizations and theories. Top of arch, theories about how these facts are related in a general way. Start with a general theory about the world, then use deductive reasoning to generate a specific, testable hypothesis about the data. Through experimentation, collect data at the bottom of the arch, and use inductive reasoning to relate it to general theory in some meaningful way.
