PSYC 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Organ Donation, Perseveration, Neuroeconomics
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Cognitive process by which people start with information and come to conclusions that go beyond that information. Inductive reasoning: reasoning based on observations, or reaching conclusions from evidence: what will happen based on what we observe. Deductive reasoning: determining whether a conclusion logically follows from a statement: is something true based on the argument presented. Premises are based on observation: jen leaves for school at 7am, she"s always on time. She assumes if she always leaves at 7am then she"ll always be on time: probably, but not definitely true, we generalize from these cases to more general conclusions with varying degrees of certainty. Strength of argument: representativeness of observations. What if someone else leaves at 7am: number of observations. What if this is the fourth day of class. Aka: less strong of an argument: quality of observations. Use to make scientific discoveries: hypotheses and general conclusions.
