PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Jean Piaget, Inductive Reasoning, Flynn Effect
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Psych week six: problem solving & intelligence 10/17/2011 2:34:00 pm. Involves the ability to perform cognitive tasks and the capability to learn from experience and adapt. The cognitive ability of an individual to learn from experience, reason well, remember important information and cope with the demands of daily living. You come to a concrete conclusion based on a general idea. Example: if dr. kim tells us that it is about to rain, we deduct that soon the ground will be wet. Example: in science, we use a theory to make a hypothesis. You generate a general idea given concrete information. Example: if you wake up in the morning and notice the ground is wet, you can use inductive reasoning to say that it must of rained overnight. Example: in science we use results in an experiment, then relate it to the world. A special category of problems that are designed to test your ability to think outside the box .
