Psychology 3130A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Positiva Records, Enying, Deductive Reasoning

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3130A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

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Premise 1: one of the doors lead to castle, the other leads to certain death. Premise 3: one always tells the truth, the other always lies. Blue says: you could only ask one of us. **final exam q (problem solving and causal? ) : make statement about if something is this, then it can"t be the other (exclusive statement) Principle of truth: tend to represent only true mental models. Account: rule based (syntactic, the reasoned applies a set of abstract rules (formal logic, mental model (semantic, the reasoned constructs or considers alternative mental models, both accounts represent ideals, and not necessarily what humans always do, both thought to reside in slow systems, some may not fall into either; people take shortcuts. Ab: consider syntactic account, a rule: when you think some, should think at least one but possibly all (why? b/c this arrangement a and b allows for this statement to be true; semantic explanation model)