PSYC 3260 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Neuroeconomics, Omission Bias, Utility

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3260
• Professor: Norman Park

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Reasoning: cognitive processes by which people start with information and come to conclusions that go beyond that information. Third statement called conclusion: categorical syllogism. Describe relation between two categories using all, no, or some. Syllogism is valid if conclusion follows logically from its two premises: a(cid:396)istotle"s (cid:862)pe(cid:396)fe(cid:272)t(cid:863) s(cid:455)llogis(cid:373) If t(cid:449)o p(cid:396)e(cid:373)ises of a (cid:448)alid s(cid:455)llogis(cid:373) a(cid:396)e t(cid:396)ue, the s(cid:455)llogis(cid:373)"s (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)lusio(cid:374) (cid:373)ust be true. Deductive reasoning: conditional syllogisms (cid:862)if p, the(cid:374) (cid:395)(cid:863, affirming the antecedent, denying the consequent, affirming the consequent, denying the antecedent. Caption: four syllogisms that begin with the same first premise. Effect of using real-world items in a conditional-reasoning problem. Determine minimum number of cards to turn over to test: if there is a vowel on one side, then there is an even number on the other side. Falsification principle: to test a rule, you must look for situations that falsify the rule.