PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Boogie 2Nite, Correspondence Principle, Asteroid Family

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Brenda Baird

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Three chapter 2 questions for discussion: i realize it is not reasonable to believe them, jones has thought very hard about that topic. So his beliefs about it must be rational. A person who is shipwrecked on a deserted island has a much better chance of surviving if he believes that he will be rescued than if he doesn"t. The belief will give him the strength and motivation to do what he must to stay alive, and this will give him a better chance of living until help arrives. As a result, it surely is rational for him to believe that he will survive, even if he doesn"t have any evidence supporting that belief. So (rb) is wrong: describe briefly the main evidence you have for the following beliefs. In example 2. 2 hasa hunch has a hunch that a coin has landed heads up.