PSY 308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Base Rate, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Chief Operating Officer
5 Jun 2016
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: ability to reason well is a critical thinking skill that is crucial in science, mathematics, law and many more. Delphi technique: a method for achieving agreement among experts in some field. Logic: branch of philosophy that explicitly states the rules for deriving valid conclusion. Conclusion: an inferential belief that is derived from other statements. Valid if it is necessarily follows from some statements that are accepted as facts (accdg to logic). Illogical: conclusions that are not in accord with the rules of logic. Henle (1962): gave a situation to students about household problems and asked them whether it is important to discuss about it. Wrong answer accdg to rules of logic but correct according to the student"s own rules. Both students were wrong because they add their own opinions/beliefs. (failure to accept the logical task) The consideration of context and purpose when engaging in real world reasoning tasks.
