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

Inductive Reasoning: Reaching Conclusions From Evidence • 371 condition, 12 of the names were famous men (Ronald Reagan, Mick Ja ...

372 • CHAPTER 13 Reasoning and Decision Making When Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman (1974) presented this question in an experi ...

Inductive Reasoning: Reaching Conclusions From Evidence • 373 idea of a typical feminist. However, in doing this they violated t ...

374 • CHAPTER 13 Reasoning and Decision Making THE CONFIRMATION BIAS One of the major roadblocks to accurate reasoning is the co ...

Decision Making: Choosing Among Alternatives • 375 Decision Making: Choosing Among Alternatives As we noted at the beginning of ...

376 • CHAPTER 13 Reasoning and Decision Making larger bowl containing a smaller proportion of red beans (for example, 7 red bean ...

Decision Making: Choosing Among Alternatives • 377 Unfortunately, contestant X didn’t take the deal, and the next briefcase open ...

378 • CHAPTER 13 Reasoning and Decision Making are emotions that are associated with the act of making a decision. For example, ...

Decision Making: Choosing Among Alternatives • 379 INCIDENTAL EMOTIONS AFFECT DECISIONS How might the fact that you feel happy o ...

380 • CHAPTER 13 Reasoning and Decision Making However, the opt-in versus opt-out results indicate that the procedure used to id ...

Decision Making: Choosing Among Alternatives • 381 One reason people’s decisions are affected by framing is that the way a probl ...

382 • CHAPTER 13 Reasoning and Decision Making The results for the two groups are shown in the columns headed “Passed” and “Fail ...

The Physiology of Thinking • 383 are involved in thinking. There is a great deal of neuropsychological evidence (recently supple ...

384 • CHAPTER 13 Reasoning and Decision Making NEUROECONOMICS: THE NEURAL BASIS OF DECISION MAKING A new approach to studying de ...

Something to Consider • 385 The results of this experiment support the idea that it is important to take emotional factors into ...

386 • CHAPTER 13 Reasoning and Decision Making that hospital patients receive the vaccine, because it is easy to justify a decis ...

Think About It • 387 against these explanations, leaving the controversy about how to explain the Wason problem still unresolved ...

388 • CHAPTER 13 Reasoning and Decision Making If You WANT TO KNOW MORE Using diagrams to determine the validity of syllogisms. ...

Media Resources • 389 Unconscious determinants of attention in the brain. The outcome of a decision can be encoded in activity ...

Glossary • 391 Acrobat problem A problem involving acrobats that is similar to the Tower of Hanoi prob- lem. Used to illustrate ...