COG 100 Study Guide - Summer 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Representativeness Heuristic, Heuristics In Judgment And Decision-Making, Inductive Reasoning

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Reasoning: johnson-laird uses the idea of semantic information to distinguish deductive from inductive reasoning. Explain the idea of semantic information and how j-l uses to distinguish inductive from deductive reasoning. Give an example to illustrate the idea of semantic information (e. g. the little card guessing game we did in class). Semantic information is a form of reasoning based on information. If the information provides new information it is inductive. If the information is always true to the conclusion it is deductive. This inductive or deductive information distinguishes the amount of semantic information present. Inductive can be valuable because it increases information (more semantic infor. Inductive can be useful to diagnosis and more conclusions while deductive can oftentimes be calculated or more certain. You have made a deduction, and you may put the conclusion into words or merely act upon it.

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