PSYCH 2H03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Amygdala, Orbitofrontal Cortex, Cd Player
10 Apr 2017
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Reasoning: thinking through the implications of what you know. Deduction: a process through which we start with claims or assertions that we count as given and ask what follows from these premises. Allows us to make predictions based on beliefs. A belief can be confirmed many times and still be false (e. g. a rooster crows every morning, but his crow is not the event that brings the sun up) In order to evaluate a belief, it is useful to seek out information that both supports and might challenges it. Participants who were presented with series of numbers and asked to identify a rule were not very likely to ask for evidence that disconfirmed their expectations, and those who did were more quickly able to find the rule. Scrutinizing and reinterpreting disconfirming evidence increases mental activity, and therefore likelihood that the information will be remembered.
