PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Mental Models, Availability Heuristic, Social Contract
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This refers to a famous graph which has a sudden peak stemming from a plateau that looked like a hockey stick laying horizontally with the bottom of it pointing upwards. This hockey stick was charting temperature variation for evidence of anthropogenic climate change: however some scientist used the same numbers used in the hockey stick graph and found different results this is evidence of motivated reasoning affecting understanding. Motivated reasoning is heavily influence by prior experience. It consists of two premises and a conclusion. Each of the premises specifies a relationship between two categories. Syllogistic reasoning is sometimes called categorical reasoning. There are four forms: universal affirmative: all a are b. Universal negative no a are b no acute angles are 90-degree angles . Particular affirmative: some a are b some animals have claws . Particular negative: some a are not b some animals do not have wings .
