Reasoning and decision making

Question 1

What are the 4 terms used?

Answer 1

Judgement (likelihood)
Decision making
Problem solving
Reasoning

Question 2

What region of the brain do we us for these 4 terms?

Answer 2

Frontal cortex

Question 3

What are the 3 types of heuristics used for making judgements?

Answer 3

Availability
Representativeness
Anchoring and adjustment

Question 4

When is anchoring and adjustment used?

Answer 4

Initial estimate of answer - attempt to adjust this

Question 5

What’s the utility theory?

Answer 5

We should choose the option that has the best utility/value to us

Question 6

What does loss averse mean?

Answer 6

We pay more attention to potential losses than gains

Question 7

What are the 3 parts of a problem?

Answer 7

Start state
Operators
Goal state

Question 8

If a problem is clear, what is this called?

Answer 8

Well-specified

Question 9

What’s functional fixedness?

Answer 9

Only thinking of using something for it’s fixed function

Question 10

What’s deductive reasoning?

Answer 10

Conclusion is certain, if assumptions are true

Question 11

What’s inductive reasoning?

Answer 11

Hypotheses - need evidence

Question 12

What’s falsification in terms of rules?

Answer 12

Rules are invalid