Psychology 3130A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ice Dam, Inductive Reasoning, Basement

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3130A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

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Similarity is important bc it allows you to do inductive reasoning use what you know to make predictions. Deduction: take a hypothesis and make systematic observation, look to see if the observation supports the deduction, general to specific. Induction: observation leads to hypothesis, more automatic way of making predictions, specific to general, but often a specific inference is made from the general predictions. Generalization: a generalization is an inductive conclusion about a whole class or group of things, e. g. Positive or negative associations with police officers: e. g. Arsenal fc vs chelsea fc: based on few negative interactions, the arsenal fan might form a negative generalization about. Hypothesis test: hypothesis, set of beliefs about the world that can be stated and tested. Inferences are verified with additional evidence: hypotheses are important in everyday thinking/scientific thinking. Ice dam: formulate a hypothesis and test it before you commit to fixing. Retrospective evidence: looking at things after they happened.