LECTURE 8= INFOMRAL REASONING

Question 1

WHAT IS infomral reasoning?

Answer 1

everyday reasoning that is based on our prior knowledge and experiences

has nothign to do with formal logic

Question 2

highlighted importance concepts of informal reasoning

Answer 2

CONTENT= is it pausible or not?

CONTEXT= are we a expert vs non expert?

PROBABILITIES= possibly/probably true

MOTIVATION= dp we want to push ur energy into this

Question 3

CONTENT

Answer 3

prior knowledge is important to decide if it is plausible or not.

Weisber et al 2008, the neuroscience illusion= provided a student with a mixture of good and bad explanations of psychological phenomena and were told to rate how satisfied they were with each explanation. Some of these explanations were accompanied by neuroscientific findings and despite good or bad the ones with neuroscience were rated as satisfied. This is due to the content being neuroscience which makes students believe it is a better explanation as it is seen as evidential and scientific as neuroscience is seen as more scientific.

Question 4

PROBABLITY

Answer 4

3 factors influence perceived strength of conclusion- the degree of previous conviction or belief/ positive arguments have more impact than negative arguments/ strength of the evidence.

Question 5

MOTIVATION

Answer 5

our judgements can be distorted by our personal goals or beliefs. Myside bias is the tendency to evaluate statements with respect to our beliefs rather than on merit.