PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Availability Heuristic, Confirmation Bias, Representativeness Heuristic
11 Dec 2015
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Intelligence: the cognitive ability of an individual to learn from experience, reason well, remember important information, and cope with demand of daily living. Psychologists make two assumptions regarding intelligence: involves the ability to perform cognitive tasks, intelligence involves the capacity to learn from experience and adapt. Psychologists are interested in understanding the strategies you use to solve problems to gain insight into human intelligence. Deductive reasoning: concrete conclusion based on a general idea (e. g. if i tell you it"s about to rain, you use deductive reasoning to say the ground will soon be wet) Inductive reasoning: you generate a general idea given some concrete information. (e. g. if you wake up and notice the ground is wet, you can use inductive raining to say it rained over night) We can use deductive reasoning to generate a specific testable hypothesis about the data we expect to obtain.
