Reasoning

Question 1

Reasoning

Answer 1

a mental activity that consists of organizing information or beliefs into a series of steps in order to reach conclusions

Question 2

Logic

Answer 2

a system of rules that specifies which conclusions follow from a set of statements

Question 3

Belief bias

Answer 3

people’s judgment about whether to accept conclusions depend more on how believable the conclusions are than on whether the arguments are logically valid

Question 4

Syllogistic reasonings

Answer 4

whether a conclusion follows from two statements that are assumed to be true

Question 5

Belief laden trials

Answer 5

left temporal lobe

Question 6

Belief neutral trials

Answer 6

parietal lobe

Question 7

Illusory truth effect

Answer 7

when repeated exposure to a statement increases the likelihood that people will judge the statement to be true

Question 8

Can repeated exposure make a person mistakenly accept a piece of evidence true?

Answer 8

Yes