PSY 544 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Deductive Reasoning, Empiricism, Decision-Making
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Psy270 lecture 10 + chapter 13 decision making. *******the final exam is cumulative, and mostly lecture based. Decision making is when you make a choice, when there is more than one choice. Reasoning is not given a choice but facts and come to a conclusion based on those facts. In order to make a decision, you should compare the facts and come to a logical conclusion. Reasoning involves coming to a conclusion based on given premises or observations which we assume to be true. Rationalism: we are born with it(priori truth). You know the truth and you apply it. **induction: you don"t know the truth and you observe it and you come up with an idea. conclusion. Logical conclusion would betherefore the kitchen will smell. ex. given two types of proposition(antecendent, consequent) which are the if then , You are given specific premises and asked to draw a particular conclusion based on the principles of logic.
