Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research and Everyday Experience, 3rd Edition

Something to Consider • 351 Finke demonstrated not only that you don’t have to be an “inventor” to be cre- ative, but also that ...

352 • CHAPTER 12 Problem Solving First, let’s consider when it is an advantage to have high working memory capacity. Sian Beiloc ...

Test Yourself 12.2 • 353 they were working on the problems (see Method: Think-Aloud Protocol, page 338). The idea is that talkin ...

354 • CHAPTER 12 Problem Solving CHAPTER SUMMARY A problem occurs when there is an obstacle between a present state and a goal ...

MEDIA RESOURCES If You WANT TO KNOW MORE Incubation and creative problem solving. People often report that they are able to sol ...

356 • CHAPTER 12 Problem Solving ●FIGURE 12.27 Solution to the chain problem. All the links in one chain are cut and separated ( ...

Media Resources • 357 (a) Acrobat problem (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (b) Reverse acrobat problem ●FIGURE 12 ...

Reasoning and Decision Making These doctors are involved in reasoning, which is the process of drawing conclusions, and decision ...

359 Heide Benser/Corbis DEDUCTIVE REASONING: SYLLOGISMS AND LOGIC Validity and Truth in Syllogisms Conditional Syllogisms CHAPTE ...

Wason Selection Task CHAPTER 13 REASONING AND DECISION MAKING What kinds of errors do people make in reasoning? (362) What kinds ...

Deductive Reasoning: Syllogisms and Logic • 361 Deductive Reasoning: Syllogisms and Logic Aristotle is considered the father of ...

362 • CHAPTER 13 Reasoning and Decision Making To understand why the conclusion does not logically follow from the two premises, ...

Deductive Reasoning: Syllogisms and Logic • 363 Syllogism 1 is called affi rming the antecedent because the antecedent, p (If I ...

364 • CHAPTER 13 Reasoning and Decision Making CONDITIONAL REASONING: THE WASON FOUR-CARD PROBLEM If reasoning from conditional ...

Deductive Reasoning: Syllogisms and Logic • 365 Four cards are shown in ● Figure 13.4. Each card has an age on one side and the ...

366 • CHAPTER 13 Reasoning and Decision Making To test the idea that a permission schema may be involved in reasoning about the ...

Deductive Reasoning: Syllogisms and Logic • 367 when caveman Morg lends caveman Eng his carving tool in exchange for some food t ...

368 • CHAPTER 13 Reasoning and Decision Making the last chapter of the book, we are now describing a task that involves mental p ...

Inductive Reasoning: Reaching Conclusions From Evidence • 369 example suffers from a lack of representativeness because it does ...

370 • CHAPTER 13 Reasoning and Decision Making Some possible causes of death are listed below in pairs. Within each pair, which ...