PSYCO105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Deductive Reasoning, Unconscious Mind, Assistive Technology

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO105
• Professor: Jennifer Passey

Document Summary

Start of with a set of rules and use them to come up with some kind of conclusion. After age of 13, they can solve these problems by formal operations. Take the premises and use rental algebra to solve them. Most psycholgists do not believe this now. We translate them into what we are more familiar with. We want to translate a logi problem into what is more familiar to us. Re ecting on our real world problems not logic. We have a bias to reason inductively than deductively. This bias may not lead to many real life di culties. Beer coke more familiar so people answer this more occrrety than the ag 27. Asked to solve these problems and talk aloud. They see it as color and not in terms of number. Checkerboard problem : trial and error is habit. Other animals do to have the same type of functional xedness.