ENG ELC 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Conditional Sentence, Representativeness Heuristic, Terror Management Theory
27 Oct 2020
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Learning goals: types of reasoning, biases in reasoning, theories of reasoning, measurements / tasks. Keywords: deductive reasoning, conditional reasoning, dual process theory, syllogistic reasoning, mental logic, mental model theory, belief-bias effect, wason selection task, modus tollens, dual system theory. Terms: reasoning = process of drawing conclusions from principles + from evidence. Therefore, he is married. : modus tollens argument = reasoner denies the consequent (q) If you are a husband, then you are married. Therefore, he is not a husband deductive fallacies: lead to conclusions that are not deductively valid: affirming the consequent say the then . part of the sentence is true: denying the antecedent say the if . Would rather seek out positive information than negative information. Most participants knew to test for the modus ponens argument. Many of the things we do are automatically controlled by system 1. Mobilized when a question arises for which system 1 doesn"t have an answer.
