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Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research and Everyday Experience

E. Bruce Goldstein

Chapter 13

Judgment, Decisions, and Reasoning - all with Video Answers

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Chapter Questions

01:20

Problem 1

What is deductive reasoning? What does it mean to say that the conclusion to a syllogism is "valid"? How can a conclusion be valid but not true? True but not valid?

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00:59

Problem 2

What is a categorical syllogism? What is the difference between validity and truth in categorical syllogisms?

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01:55

Problem 3

What is the belief bias? Be sure you understand the results shown in Figure 13.10 .

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01:20

Problem 4

What is the mental model approach to determining the validity of reasoning?

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00:28

Problem 5

What is a conditional syllogism? Which of the four types of syllogisms described in the chapter are valid, which are not valid, and how well can people judge the validity of each type? How does changing the wording, while keeping the form the same, influence the ability to determine whether a syllogism is valid?

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00:49

Problem 6

What is the Wason four-card problem? Describe why the 7 card needs to be turned over in order to solve the problem.

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02:01

Problem 7

What do the results of experiments that have used real-life versions of the Wason fourcard problem indicate about how knowledge of regulations and permission schemas may be involved in solving this problem?

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01:58

Problem 8

How has the evolutionary approach to cognition been applied to the Wason four-card problem? What can we conclude from all of the experiments on the Wason problem?

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01:32

Problem 9

What is the dual systems approach to thinking? Be sure you understand the properties of System 1 and System 2 and how their operation relates to the various phenomena we have described in this chapter.

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01:45

Problem 10

What would Donders learn if he were to visit a modern cognitive psychology laboratory?

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