CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Inductive Reasoning, Deductive Reasoning, Cognitive Psychology

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Robert Reinhart

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Thinking: the field of cognitive psychology is the study of thought. They form concept and determine category membership: prototype are members that we have encountered more often (typical exemplars. # outlier exemplar: thinking enables us to do. Thinking: reasoning: using info to determine if a conclusion is valid or reasonable, deductive reasoning: using general rules to draw conclusion about specific instances. Use logic to draw specific conclusion under certain assumptions: bachelor are unmarried man. Bill is a man and unmarried bill is a bachelor: inductive reasoning: using specific instances to draw conclusions about general rules. Involve reasoning from specific general: your dog likes hotdog all dog like hotdog, decision making: attempt to select the best alternative among several options. May create difficulties to overcome, need to reinterpret its potential function: intelligence: the ability to use knowledge to reason, make decisions, make sense of.