BIOCH498 Study Guide - Final Guide: Confirmation Bias, Ultimatum Game, Fallacy

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Biochemistry
• Course: BIOCH498
• Professor: Brian Lanoil

Document Summary

Psychology 258 november 20th: define reasoning, to define inductive and deductive reasoning, understand how humans reason, explain how humans make decisions. Involves thinking - not making a choice. Truth, validity, and reasoning are not the same thing. Drawing conclusions from a general rule to a specific case. Top down logic - this kind of reasoning is reductive. I. e. circle representing all men vs. circle contains everything mortal. Example (false invalid/may or may not be true): Therefore, some psychology majors care about poverty. Good reasoning and truth are not the same thing. Accurately describes the world we are living in. If we accept the 2 premises, we must also accept the conclusion. Can have a syllogism that is valid, but it may not be true. Some means anything greater than 1 in logic and reasoning. I. e. all salmon live in cold water; all bull trouts are salmon; therefore, all bull trouts live in cold water.