PSY270H5 Lecture Notes - Wason Selection Task, Syllogism, Belief Bias
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Decision making you have to make a choice, but you need to rely on reasoning to make a choice. !- decision making is a top down process. There are two ways of gaining knowledge ourselves of what we already have prior knowledge of through deduction . 1. rationalism: we already know what is true (priori truth) Plato: soul enters our body we know all there is to know; therefore, we just need to remind. 2. empiricism: a posteriori truth; gain information/knowledge from experience. Given specific premises and asked to draw a particular conclusion. Given a set of propositions using, an if then structure and asked to draw a logical conclusion from. Important thing to keep in mind is that we can separate out valid reasoning from truth - something can the preposition be logical but not true; this can happen when the preposition is false. Antecedent is the statement that comes first and contains the if statement.
