PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Confirmation Bias, Representativeness Heuristic, Availability Heuristic
3 Oct 2016
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The researcher edwin boring has provided the most straightforward definition of intelligence: Intelligence involves the ability to perform cognitive tasks. Intelligence involves the capacity to learn from experience and adapt. Intelligence is the cognitive ability of an individual to learn from experience, to reason well, to remember important information, and to cope with the demands of daily living. Two broad strategies used to solve problems are deductive and inductive reasoning. Deductive reasoning occurs when a person works from ideas and general information to arrive at specific conclusions. Inductive reasoning moves away from specific facts and observations to generalizations and theories. Deductive and inductive reasoning are at the heart of the scientific method. Inductive reasoning is used to relate it to the general theory in some meaningful way. Problems/riddles can be difficult because of functional fixedness - our difficulty seeing alternative uses for common objects. The reliability of a test measures the extent to which repeated testing produces consistent results.
