Psychology 3130A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Validity, Syllogism, Inductive Reasoning

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

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Induction moves from specific to general (based on evidence) and the conclusions are probabilistic: also described as going beyond given evidence to discover something new via thinking. Deduction and induction: premise: mcdonald"s coffee is hot. Premise like this can be used to make precise conclusions (cid:0) w/ additional premises/conclusion create categorical syllogism when combined. Premise: your friend is waiting at starbucks or by the shoe store. Conclusion: therefore your friend is by the shoe store. A deductive statement (a syllogism) has several components: Statement has one or more premises and a conclusion. Premise gives basic factual info that we reason from. In deductive task, we assume that premises are true. Facts: what you would expect them to be (cid:0) things that can be true or things that can be false: descriptions, statements about properties, predicates. Operators: crucial to deduction task and part of what make this different from inductive reasoning: ex: or.