PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Edwin Boring, Inductive Reasoning, Deductive Reasoning
1 Feb 2018
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Intelligence involves the ability to perform cognitive tasks and the capacity to learn from experience and adapt. Unit 2: problem solving: two strategies used to solve problems are deductive and inductive reasoning, deductive reasoning: occurs when a person works from ideas and general information to arrive at specific conclusions, ex. Every day, the drive to school takes 30 minutes and i arrive on time for my first class. Therefore, if i leave for school at 8am today, i will be on time. Inductive reasoning: works oppositely of deductive reasoning; it goes from specific facts and observations to broader generalizations and theories: ex. Today i left for school at 8am and i arrived on time for my first class. Intelligence tests are still used to this day and the most popular one was developed by david. Wechsler in the 1930s: the two descendants of weschler original scale that are commonly used today are the.
