Psychology 3130A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Railways Act 1921, Informa, Confirmation Bias

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

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Orderings are easiest to solve when comparison terms are congruent (shorter, short: the information is given out on a line, thus easier for the brain to construct, the solutions will be facilitated if the second term is in the first p is the first term in the second premise, negations are harder, because it requires an extra step to convert back into the term consistent with the schema, comparisons between adjacent terms are more difficult than comparisons between end terms (comparing between 1,and 2 is easier than 1 and 9 , spatial array is good for difficult syllogism, linear array is good for linear syllogism. Representative heuristic assumes that everyone in that class has the same characteristics: about a whole class or category, talking about things that in the class or not in the class, grouping, given some statements and trying to see if a conclusion is valid or not, there are two ways to express this classical statement.