PSYB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Prefrontal Cortex, Deductive Reasoning, Inductive Reasoning
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Using landmarks to figure out how to get to grandmas: categorization, seriation: ability to order items along a dimension. E. g. if a > b, b>c, then a >c. Catherine is shown three sticks: a yellow one, a green one, and a blue one. She is shown that the yellow stick is longer than the green one and the green one is longer than the blue one. She immediately says that the yellow one is longer than the blue one without physically comparing both sticks: class inclusive: ability to see the relationship between a whole and its parts. Age 7 or 8 children consistently reason that roses are a subclass of flowers and that, therefore, there cannot be more roses than flowers. Inductive reasoning type of logical reasoning that moves from particular observations about members of a class to a general conclusion about that clas.
