PSYC 2060U Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Deductive Reasoning, Syllogism, Inductive Reasoning
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50-60 questions few more application than definition questions. Slide 1: how our thinking and reasoning processes work and don"t work. Top-down processes starts with higher cortical regions and sends commands to lower cortical regions. Slide 2: reasoning cognitive processes when people start with information and come to conclusions that go beyond that information, reasoning taking a piece of information and adding more or having a deeper understanding. Slide 3: deductive vs. inductive reasoning deductive reasoning: digging into information, from general specific. Inductive reasoning: take specific reasoning and generalize it. Slide 4: deductive reasoning process of reasoning from one or more general statements to reach a specific conclusion. When deducing, we take a general statement and prove with logic of a specific statement is true or not true, from general statement to specific statement. Slide 7: 1st logic and validity in all statements 2nd validity but not truth, statements are false. 3rd losing logic while somewhat true statements.
