DEDUCTIVE REASONING: (WK6):

TYPES OF THINKING:

• analytical thinking = more cognitive resources

• heuristics = mental shortcuts that work most of the time, not guaranteed the correct solution

DEDUCTIVE REASONING:

• premise 1: CN tower taller than empire state building

• premise 2: empire state building is taller than the eiffel tower

• conclusion: CN tower is taller than eiffel tower

  • if A > B & B > C therefore A > C

• valid does not always equal true

DEDUCTIVE REASONING TASKS:

• conditional = deals with relationships between conditions, using words like or, and, if… then

• categorical = refers to quantities, using words like all, some, none 

  • premise 1: some psych students are girls

  • premise 2: some girls have long hair

  • conclusion: some psychology students have long hair

WASON SELECTION TASK:

• social contract theory 

• familiarity

RULE TYPE:

• indicative = ‘if there is p then there is a q’

• deontic = ‘if you do p, then you must do q’

  • if i have a headache i should take some painkillers VS if i do not need to take painkillers then i do not have a headache

FACTORS AFFECTING PERFORMANCE: WASON TASK:

• concreteness

• famiiliarity

• social contract

• pragmatic reasoning schema

• rule type