Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Syllogism, Deductive Reasoning, Validity

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: Minda

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Reasoning and logic: reasoning is going beyond the given info to comprehend the situation, making inferences and deductions, taking knowledge about what is known and drawing conclusions, discovering something new. Deduction: general conclusion, making conclusion about an individual case, top down. Interested in whether or not people can reason correctly. Induction: bottom up, observations and drawing conclusions from those individual observations. In most real-world settings, we use both types of reasoning. Mrs. shivers broke the ice by saying: "i"m so glad we"re talking about these problems. It"s so important to talk about things that are in our minds. We spend so much of our time in the kitchen that, of course, household problems are in our minds. So it is important to talk about them. " If it is the only conclusion to be drawn, then it is logically valid: no.