PSY 2116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Modus Tollens, Wason Selection Task, Modus Ponens
3 Feb 2016
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Syllogisms arguments consisting of two premises and a conclusion. All poodles have names: vs two other types such as viscious and letters. Juding content free material, parietal regions have been found to have roles in solving algebraic judging meainging ful conten, left prefrontal and temporal/parietal lobes are associated with language processing invoke different regions reasoning about conditionals. Deductive reasoning concerned with conclusions that follow with certainity from the premises inductive reasoning concerned with coclusions that probabilistically follow form the premises. Eg. fred brother of maru, mary is mother of lisa deductive: lisa and fred uncle, inductive: fred is older than lisa. Conditional statement is an assertion such as if you read this chapter you will wiser. Modus ponens central rule of inference in the logic of the conditional: joan understands the book she will get a good grade, she understands it, she will get a good grade.
