Psychology 3130A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Sesamoid Bone, Mathematical Induction, Inductive Reasoning

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3130A/B
• Professor: Ronald R Holden

Document Summary

Week 6: induction: when you are familiar with a certain domain or category or set of objects you can used induction to infer new properties to a category we are familiar with. Prediction: to predict the future and unseen things. Generalizing from a category: example: inferring what is inside a squash using a familiar category/object of pumpkin. Hume"s negative thesis: induction has to do with predicting the future, we predict the future on the basis of a reasoning process that says in the past, You are just redefining the problem there is no way to know the future, Hume"s positive thesis things are unforeseen: we have a habit of induction we are hardwired to say that the future will resemble the past. This is being how all humans are designed. Youre an emerald expert and you see many green emeralds: conclude that all emeralds are green this is true because it defines your experience of seeing emeralds.