PSYCO105 Lecture : Jan 23 - Language and Thought Continued.docx

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We may have learned to bias our statements in ways designed to elicit agreement. We might have developed a tendency to stick with hypotheses that seem to be working rather than to test their limits by behaving in ways that violate them. People are so strongly predisposed to find order in our world that we inclined to see or anticipate order even where it doesn"t exist. Predictable-world bias: a tendency to engage in inductive reasoning even in situations where such reasoning is pointless because the relationship in question is completely random. The attempt to derive logically the consequences that must be true if certain premises are accepted as true (a. k. a. deduction) Logical proof, assuming that the premises really are true. We reason deductively to derive the logical implications of statements that we hear. We usually solve deductive problems by reflecting on our real-world knowledge, not by thinking about laws of logic.

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