PSY310H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Inductive Reasoning, Deductive Reasoning, Metacognition
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For adolescents, what is real is just a subset of what is possible. Can move between the specific and the abstract. Better able to have arguments because they can plan what the other person might say and think of a counter argument -become better arguers. Deductive reasoning: a type of logical reasoning in which one draws logically necessary conclusions from a general set of promises or givens (ex: all hockey players wear mouth guards. Ability to stop yourself before acting automatically is controlled by a region of the brain that has been shown to mature during adolescence. Inductive reasoning: reasoning that involves drawing an inference from the evidence that one has. Ex: kim, john, julie, tom liz and kendra are hockey players. Kim, john, julie, tom liz and kendra all wear mouth guards. Conclusions derived from deductive reasoning are guaranteed to be true whereas those from inductive vary in their likelihood of being true.
