Cog Ch 10: Reasoning and Decision Making
November 13, 2007
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November 13th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
Site 1: http://epse501.freeservers.com/index.html
This is a good resource as it has several links off of it for the different theories. It is a simple format that is easily understood.
Tags: cog3310, chapter 10, framing effects
These tags will make this information easy to access and helps keep it organized under the chapter or topic of the article.
Site 2: http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/dedind.htm
This is a good wesite to explain deductive versus inductive reasoning and is easy to understand.
Tags 2: cog3310, chapter10, inductive reasoning, deductive reasoning
These tags will help me access this article quickly and efficiently.
November 14th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
The Website I Found For Website #1:
http://www.tcd.ie/Psychology/Ruth_Byrne/mental_models/
Brief Title: Mental Models Website. A gentle introduction
Review: This website contains a lot of info explaining the mental model theory of thinking and learning. It talks about Kenneth Craik’s suggestions he made back in 1943, about the mind constructing small scale models, etc. It is very insightful and has a simple way of explaining it all. This is covered in chapter 10 from our class. It’s all about thinking and reasoning and gives examples to support, help you know what its about.
Tags: Cog 3310 Psyc E3 Chp10 Mental Model Theory Thinking & Learning Website Kenneth Craik
The Reasoning Behind My Tags… “ “ ‘s are used to pin point my “tag” words I used.
“Cog 3310 Psyc E3 Chp10 “These words all are used to reference the class in general so later on I can research for this link if I remember it was for this class. As well as the chapter number 10 and “e3” for exam #3.
“Mental Model Theory Thinking & Learning Website Kenneth Craik” were all used because they are highlighted areas from the article/website I found.
The Website I Found For Website #2:
http://journal.sjdm.org/06001/jdm06001.htm
Brief Title: Biases in ca$ino betting:the hot hand and the gambler’s fallacy
Review: This is a written explanation to the gambeler’s fallacy covered in our chapter 10. It is written by James Sundali at the Univ. of Pennsylvania. It’s in the Judgement and Decision Making category on the website. It’s very well written and very well explained. I would definitely use this when placing in info into a research paper from here. Very credible source. It’s written and contains an abstract, introduction, conclusion, etc. Good work!
Tags: Cog 3310 Psyc E3 Chp10 judgment and decision making hot hand gambler’s fallacy ca$ino betting field data roulette
The Reasoning Behind My Tags… “ “ ‘s are used to pin point my “tag” words I used.
“Cog 3310 Psyc E3 Chp10 “These words all are used to reference the class in general so later on I can research for this link if I remember it was for this class. As well as the chapter number 10 and “e3” for exam #3.
“judgment and decision making hot hand gambler’s fallacy ca$ino betting field data roulette” were all used because they are highlighted areas from the article/website I found.
November 14th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
Thats weird I had to replace the word ca’s’ino …the ’s’ with a $ because this blog thing didn’t want ‘ca’s’ino’ to be posted. Weird. Just wanted to tell you why i did ‘ca$ino’ for the word ‘ca’s’ino’. Have a good day! You don’t have to post this if u could. Thanks.
November 14th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
URL of site 1: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O87-Wasonselectiontask.html
review of site 1: This webpage is an encyclopedia article. It gives a more simplistic explanation of the Wason selection task. I found it useful because it helped me further understand this task.
tags for site 1: Wason cog3310
rational of tags for site 1: I used the tag Wason, because he came up with this task. It is a shorter tag than if I were to say Wason Selection Task. I tagged cog3310, because it is for this class.
URL of site 2: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-syllogis.html
review of site 2: This is an encyclopedia article about syllogisms. It describes the three types of syllogisms. One type, categorical syllogisms, is especially relevant to this chapter.
tags for site 2: cog3310 syllogisms
rational of tags for site 2: I tagged syllogisms, because that is the topic of the article. I tagged cog3310, because it is for this class.
November 14th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
Site 1
Ch 10: Gambler’s Fallacy
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/gamblers-fallacy.html
Review: This site describes the Gambler’s Fallacy. It’s an interesting concept, a common misconception that most of us have fallen prey to. It gives several examples and also describes situations in which one must consider the probability. In other words, the site separates the difference between properly using the law of probability and engaging in the gambler’s fallacy.
Tags: cog3310 cognition psychology NGCSU braintricks fallacy
Rational: cog3310 is a required tag. Cognition, psychology and NGCSU tags define my academic sites. I thought braintricks was a funny tag for the way we trick ourselves into believing certain things. Fallacy refers to the type of trick it is.
Site 2
Ch 10: Framing Effects
http://cat.xula.edu/thinker/decisions/heuristics/framing
Review: This site gives a very short demonstration of framing effects. They are examples that we encounter everyday. There are only a few questions, but the site tries to be interactive. It may help someone understand the concept a little bit better. There is also an interactive demonstration of gambler’s fallacy if you click the next button on the screen.
Tags: cog3310 NGCSU test3 experiments psychology studytool
Rational: cog3310 is required. NGCSU and psychology tags narrow the search for academic sites. Test3 refers to our upcoming test. Experiments tag was a suggested popular tag, and the site seemed to fit the bill. This site can also be used as an interactive study tool, hence the tag studytool.
November 14th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
http://books.google.com/books?id=_pBETDiOfmgC&pg=PA445&lpg=PA445&dq=deductive+reasoning+and+cognition&source=web&ots=cUxhsWQCwM&sig=QFo8q_lNVbfxqf1qGtg0JUj0chI
this is a chapter all about deductive reasoning that really helps to clarify the difference between inductive and deuctive. great clarification and some nice examples.
tags: cog3310 chapter10 deductive reasoning decision making
November 14th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
http://michaelgr.com/2007/11/12/cognitive-bias-monte-carlo-fallacy/
i love to gamble. (usually i win). this site takes a look at the gambler’s fallacy and gives a few different examples as well as possible applications of the fallacy in the real world.
tags cog3310 chapter10 reasoning and decision making gambler’s fallacy
why? class chapter broad and specif topic as well as the fact that the gambler’s fallacy could affect your decision to play the odds
ps- on my last post just zoom down to chapter 16 for all the relevant info, as well as you could take a look at the rest of the book too-its got tons of info.
November 14th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Site 1:
http://cat.xula.edu/thinker/decisions/heuristics/framing
This site goes through and gives you examples of ways to frame positively and negatively. It helped me to understand how you can see things in different lights and how poeple will choose the more positively framed option.
Tags:
Ch10, Framing effects, cog3310
I thought these would be the first things to pop into someone’s head when searching for this.
Site 2:
http://sysopmind.com/bayes/bayes.html
This site gives example of Baye’s theorem and explains how to use it. It also goes through and tell you how it got the answers to the problems, step by step. I found this site to be very informative and helped me under this concept a lot more.
Tags:
Ch10, cog3310, Bayes’s Theorem
I thought this would be the easiest way to find the information.
November 15th, 2007 at 1:07 am
1.
bayes’s theorem
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bayes-theorem/
this is a stanford webpage about bayes’s theorem. goes into pretty detailed mathematical analysis about how it is applied and calculated. probably not very interesting or helpful if you dont like formulas.
TAGS: cog3310 bayes’s theorem mathematical formula
2.
gamblers fallacy
http://www.fallacyfiles.org/gamblers.html
website briefly describing gambler’s fallacy and its opposite, reverse gamblers fallacy. different examples than the book.
TAGS: cog3310 gamblers fallacy reverse example chapter10
November 15th, 2007 at 11:05 am
http://lc.brooklyn.cuny.edu/smarttutor/logic/ponens.html
Review:This website explains the modus ponens component of deductive reasoning. There are also links within the explanation that will explain other aspects of deductive reasoning. For example if you need more help on understanding the antecedent component you can click on that word and it go to an explanation of it and give examples. Good site for reviewing information.
Tags: cog3310, deductive reasoning, modus ponens, antedendent, consequent
Reason: cog3310 for class, all other tags are related and discussed on website
November 15th, 2007 at 11:21 am
http://skepdic.com/gamblers.html
Review: This website reviews the gambler’s fallacy which is in the probability section of the reasoning chapter. This website gives examples using the lottery, gamblers playing roulette, and dice games.
Tags: cog3310, gambler’s fallacy, probability
Reason: cog3310 for class, gambler’s fallacy is what the article is about and probability because that is a good general topic that gambler’s fallacy could fall under.
November 15th, 2007 at 11:35 am
1. Bayes’s Theorem
http://www.sciam.com/math/article/id/what-is-bayess-theorem-an
Review: This is a good website that shows the practicality and gives a real-life example of this theory. I was a little confused at the relevance of this when I read it in the book but this article explained the importance. Somewhat good for studying and offers good information; great for clarification!
Tags: cog3310 Cognition Probability Theory
Tags Rational: Two required, and then probability because people are always calculating risks and then theory because it is a theory.
November 15th, 2007 at 11:49 am
2. Probability Matching
http://www.ni.cs.tu-berlin.de/lehre/SpieltheorieSem/rational_choice.pdf
Review: This is a pretty good article. It is rather long but very informative. It is all about the behaviorism behind making and choosing probabilities. It also talks about probability in different scenarios and how accurate it is. Very long but good information.
Tags: cog3310 Cognition Reasoning Theory
Rational: Two required, and then reasoning and theory because this is a theory that explores the behaviors and theories behind probabilities and reasoning!
November 15th, 2007 at 11:55 am
Site #1:
http://www.math.toronto.edu/mathnet/questionCorner/deductive.html
Review: This website goes over the difference in deductive and inductive reasoning. It is a little boring, but very straight foward and informaive. Good for a quick reference.
tags: cog3310, inductive and deductive.
November 15th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
Site #2:
http://www.cog-tech.com/projects/CriticalThinking/CriticalThinkingTheory.htm
Review: Goes over the theories of reasoning, critical discussion, and cognitive mechanisms. Also goes over the aspects that involve empirical and normative elements. Very informative an there is a lot to this site. Great for reviewing.
tags: cog3310, critical thinking theories.
November 15th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/dedind.php
This site gives specific differences in deductive reasoning and inductive reasoning. Deductive and inductive reasoning are suprisingly very different.
TAGS:cog3310 deduction induction
November 15th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
http://www.philosophypages.com/lg/e08a.htm
This site goes much more in depth about categorical syllogism than our textbook. This website helped me understand this concept better.
TAGS: cog3310 categorical syllogism
November 15th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
Site1:
http://www.cogsci.northwestern.edu/cogsci2004/papers/paper499.pdf
This site is very detailed and informative. It might be a little on the long side, however it is really great in how we reason. If you are looking to have a deeper understanding through studies then this is a great site.
tags: cog3310 human reasoning research
Site 2:
http://dieoff.org/page163.htm
This site is a great site that breaks down into the theories behind decision making, but it also covers problem solving. This is a great resource and is detailed. This is a long site.
tags: decision making cog3310 theories problem solving
November 15th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
http://cals-cf.calsnet.arizona.edu/fcs/content.cfm?content=decision_making
This is a good site that goes through the processes used to make decisions.
Cog3310 decision making process
I tagged it because it is a fact sheet about the decision making process.
http://logcom.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/12/1/55.pdf
It is a very advanced article on reasoning on multi agent systems.
Cog3310 reasoning multi agent
It is about reasoning on multi-agent systems.
November 15th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
site#1
msg.calsnet.arizona.edu/fcs/content.cfm?content=decision_making
This site is a little more focused on youth using reasoning and decision making. It does have some really interesting information.
tags: cog3310 reasoning and decision making
site #2
logcom.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/12/1/55.pdf
This site has a lot of really good detailed information. If you are really good in math you may understand it better than others because it has a lot of formulas.
tags:cog3310 reasoning and decision making
November 15th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
Site 1
http://ext.sac.edu/faculty_staff/taba_khalil/logic/deductive_reasoning.htm
Review of site 1:
This is a great site to learn more about inductive and deductive reasoning. It is pretty short, but it has a lot of examples. I really like this because it gives me a chance to learn the material on a more personal level than just reading a definition out of the book.
Tags: cog3310, test3, inductive, deductive, ch10
Reasoning:
Cog3310 is so for this class, test3 is so that when studying I can find the material much easier, inductive and deductive is what the website is about, and ch10 is the chapter that the material is in. These all are to help me to find material that I might need more readily.
Site 2:
http://www.pr-owl.org/basics/probability.php
Review of site 2:
This is a great site to learn more about probability and in particular Bayes’s theory of probability. It has a link that you can click on, and learn even more about his probability theory. I did not really care for all the equations, but the site was useful.
Tags: cog3310, probability, Bayes, ch10, test 3
Reasoning: Cog3310 is for this class, probability and Bayes is what the website is about, ch10 is the chapter in which the material comes from, and test 3 is so that I can find the material easier when studying for the test.
November 15th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
http://www.philosophypages.com/lg/e08a.htm
Some extra examples of syllogisms.
http://www.molwick.com/en/scientific-methods/024-reasoning.html
Inductive and deductive reasoning examples.
November 15th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
http://sysopmind.com/bayes/bayes.html
Ok, if you are completely bored and think you know everything about Chapter 10 visit this cite about Bayes’s Theorem. This cite explains everything and then lets you interact by computing problems. I don’t know if I would call this useless….but pretty good overview of Bayes.
TAGS:cog3310 prof_chuck Bayes’s
I tagged this under Bayes’s for the reason that the site deals with Bayes’s Theorem. The others are for class purposes.
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http://skepdic.com/gamblers.html
I tagged this cite because this was one of my favorite subjects in this chapter, I found it very interesting. And this cite gives a few more examples of gambler’s fallacy than the book does. Don’t go to Vegas!
TAGS: cog3310 prof_chuck gambler’s_fallacy
I tagged gambler’s_fallacy because this site is mainly focused on this aspect. The others are for class reasons
November 15th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/dedind.htm
This web site explains the difference between indicutive and deductive reasoning. The page shows a visual representation of the two kinds of reasoning so it makes them easier to understand.
cognition; deductive; inductive; reasoning; cog3310
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bayes-theorem/
This web site gives an indepth explanation for Bayes’ Theorem. It might be a little more information than is necessary for understanding the subject, but if I were writing a paper on Bayes’ Theorem it would be helpful.
cognition; Bayes’ theorem; probabitity; cog3310
November 15th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1zKAiV01QA
This is a great video explaining logic in a very easy way. They also explain modus tollens and modus ponens. He even makes a picture diagram to help!
Tags: cog3310, logic, deductive reasoning,
Modus Tollens, Modus ponens, Syllogism
I chose these tags because this video helps explain both logic, and syllogisms, as well as modus tollens and ponens.
November 15th, 2007 at 11:17 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qhoi9E0iew
I chose this video because it discusses a little about gamblers fallacy and what it means. It also give an example of one to help understand it a little better.
Tags:cog3310, gamblers fallacy, logic, decision making
I chose these tags because the video involves gamblers fallacy and logic, also the chapter is entitled decision making.
November 16th, 2007 at 8:48 am
Site: 1
http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/socex/wason.htm#descriptive%20rule
Review: I chose this site because it gives full explanation and samples of the Wason Selection Task. It gives you the chance to see if you can solve it and then you can click for the answer. It explains the answers in full.
Tags: cog3310 cognition Wason selection psychology prof_chuck
I used these tags based on our class tag, Wason for the task, selection also for the task and psychology for the class.
Site: 2
http://www.philosophypages.com/lg/e08a.htm
Review: This is a good article for reviewing categorical syllogisms. It gives a thorough explanation and shows how to diagram them. I think it makes a very good study tool.
Tags: cog3310 prof_chuck psychology syllogism quantifiers cognition
I tagged this site to our class tags along with syllogism, and quantifiers for logical quantifiers and because the site breaks down categorical syllogism.
November 16th, 2007 at 9:48 am
Book Mark 1:
http://www.philosophers.co.uk/cgi-local/wason.cgi?num=1
Provides an interactive demonstration of the Wason Selection Task.
Tags: Cog3310, Psychology, Chapter10, the Wason Selection Task
Reason for tags: Cog3310 defines the class, psychology defines the subject, chapter 10 represents the chapter number and the Watson Selection Task describes the web-sites content.
Book Mark 2:
http://www.philosophypages.com/lg/e08a.htm
Explains categorical syllogism, shows how to diagram (solve) these type of problems with Venn Diagrams and provides a link to practice,
Tags: Cog3310, Psychology, Chapter 10, Categorical Syllogism
Reason for tags: Cog3310 defines the class, psychology defines the subject, chapter 10 represents the chapter number and categorical syllogism describes the web-sites content.
November 16th, 2007 at 10:07 am
URL: http://cob.isu.edu/kreggaytes/decision_making.htm
Title: The Decision Maker
Description: The site gives an overiview of deductive and inductive reasoning. It is a basic article that essentially overviews the material covered in class on 11/15/2007. This article would be a good starting point in preparing to write a paper on the topic of reasoning and decision making.
Tag: Reasoning and Decision Making/Cog 3310
November 16th, 2007 at 10:20 am
URL: http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/Faculty/Markman/RDMugrad/
Title PSY 341K Reasoning and Decision Making
Description: This site contains the Power Point slides and course content from a course titled Reasoning and Decision Making taught at the U. T. The slides break decision making down into a very precise components and emphasize strategy, heuristics, and other allgorithims associated with the decision making process. This is a very good site to consider in preparation for an exam or a presentation.
Tag: Reasoning and Decision Making/ Cog 3310
November 16th, 2007 at 10:22 am
Site 1:
http://www.nakedscience.org/mrg/Deductive and Inductive Reasoning.htm
Review:
This site gives a slightly more thorough definition for inductive an deductive reasoning. It also gives a few examples of when each of these would be used in science. If you just need a straightforward, collected explanation, this would be a good site to visit.
Tags:
cog3310 psych reasoning deductive inductive logic
Rational:
for the class, subject matter involving reasoning and logic, these would be what I would type in to search for this.
November 16th, 2007 at 10:36 am
Site 2:
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:WedQGElrb4sJ:hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/00/01/74/PDF/thinkingANDreasoning-MMTvsIRA.pdf+mental+model+approach&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=6&gl=us&client=safari
Review:
This is a pdf file written on the Mental Model Theory vs. the Inference Rule. It discusses how researchers think the the mental model theory is better and give examples to the different approaches.
It’s a little bit of a longer article but it’s interesting if you want to know a little more information about logical approaches.
Tags:
cog3310 psych mental model theory inference rule approach reasoning logic
Rational:
class, subject matter, all keywords
November 16th, 2007 at 11:00 am
1.) http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/id/research_decis.html
Decision making, risk taking
Review: This website discusses the factors that affect decision making, and provides links for more information on decision making and risk taking.
Tags: cog3310 chapter10 decision making risk taking
Rationale: cog3310 and chapter 10 to signify the class and book chapter this site pertained to, decision making and risk taking to identify the site’s topics.
2.) http://yudkowsky.net/bayes/bayes.html
An Intuitive Explanation of Bayesian Reasoning
Review: This site gives a detailed explanation of Bayes’s theorem, including examples and problems you can actually work on the screen. It helped me understand it more thoroughly.
Tags: cog3310 chapter10 bayes’s theorem reasoning
Rationale: cog3310 and chapter 10 to signify the class and book chapter this site pertained to, bayes’s theorem and reasoning to identify the site’s topics.
November 16th, 2007 at 11:25 am
I thought it would be interesting to post some things that would be benficial to look at such as ancient logic and inductive logic.
Inductive Logic – plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-inductive/
Review :Excellent source of information if you can digest it. As it gives some history and also some problems. You can put this kind of stuff to use not only in chapter 10, but everyday life. The only problem with using this site is you might get in over your head from the beginning. The Stanford’s Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a gateway to a universe of informaion and you could use anything from here for any purpose as long as it is cited.
Tags : Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Logic, Inductive Logic, Reasoning, Philosophy
Tagged Philosophy because it mostly relates ot that field, Stanford because it is from there Encyclopedia, Logic because it is the subject and hand, Inductive Logic because the type talked about and Reasoning for chapter 10.
Ancient Logic -plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-ancient/
Review: This is where Logic came from and this history. The main person to be talked about of course is Aristotle and it will talk about some of his sysllogisms. Of course Aristotle’s Logic ultimately wasn’t able to work and it was a footboard of modern logic. Interesting stuff to read and shouldn’t be as hard to understand as the first site was.
Tags : Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Logic, Ancient Logic, Reasoning, Philosophy
Tagged Philosophy because it mostly relates ot that field, Stanford because it is from there Encyclopedia, Logic because it is the subject and hand, Ancient Logic because the type talked about and Reasoning for chapter 10.
Logical Operators – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_operator
Review: Yes it is wikipedia, but I posted this specifically for Professor Chuck. Just look at the basic Logical operators because they all match up. I didn’t read anything just found you a good source to look at them.
November 16th, 2007 at 11:39 am
http://cwis.livjm.ac.uk/lng/teaching/japanese/ENGLISH/tautolog.htm
This site gives examples and explanations of tautology and oxymorons. The examples it gives are helpful for clarification, and could be used in a paper if an example was needed.
Tags:Cog 3310 reasoning tautology oxymoron
Rational of tags: Cog3310 to delineate class, reasoning to help those searching for things from the reasoning chapter, or reasoning information in general, tautology and oxymoron- subjects of the site page.
http://aks.rutgers.edu/aksuww/Psych/ConfirmationBias/confirmbias.html
This site gives information about the confirmation bias and provides an activity called dr. aks 2-4-6 sequence rule. Helped me for a clarification and alternative explanation of the confirmation bias by actually showing how one employs the bias when reasoning.
Cog3310 Confirmation Bias 2-4-6 sequence rule
Rational of tags: Cog3310 to delineate class, confirmation bias to describe the site’s subject and help those searching for info about it, and 2-4-6 sequence rule for those looking for an activity to clarify the confirmation bias.
November 16th, 2007 at 11:45 am
Site 1:
http://www.fallacyfiles.org/gamblers.html
This website is about gambler’s fallacy, which is a concept I like. This happens because people think when something has not occured for a while then it is more likely to occur. The site has several examples and is just fun to look at. This really will not give one too much information than is in the book, just some examples.
Tags:
cog3310-for class, gambler’s-concept name and who this effects, fallacy-name of concept and what it is, trickster-because it tricks people
Site 2:
http://changingminds.org/disciplines/argument/types_reasoning/syllogistic_reasoning.htm
This website is about syllogistic reasoning. This is a lot like what we did in class. It deals with how there is not always logic behind what we think and reason in our minds. There are some examples and it does not go too much further than our book does on the subject matter.
Tags:
cog3310-for class, syllogistic-term discussed, reasoning-second part of the term
November 16th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Site #1
http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/socex/wason.htm
Review: This site provides multiple examples of Wason tasks and demonstrates how the mind interprets the rules of the tasks. Describes the rules and how they work with examples and instruction. We did many exercises similar to these in class for this chapter and this site reinforces those tasks.
Tags: Cog3310 Reasoning and Decision Making Wason Selection Task
Rational: We discussed and worked through these tasks in class and it is vital part in chapter
November 16th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
Site #1: http://www.psych.lancs.ac.uk/people/uploads/LindenBall20031001T094101.pdf
Review of Site #1: This is a scholarly paper by 2 psychology researchers entitled Cognitive Uncertainty in Syllogistic Reasoning: An Alternative Mental Models Theory. This paper illustrates their theory on syllogistic reasoning and gives evidence to support their research. I didn’t read all the way through it – it wasn’t really that long but it was very wordy. I would recommend it as a resource for an academic paper.
Tags for Site #1: cog3310 cognitive-psychology reasoning mental-models-theory syllogistic-reasoning
Rationale of tags for Site #1: I chose these tags because they name the topics the sites cover and I can easily find them by subject.
Site #2: http://www.psych.ucalgary.ca/thpsyc/VOLUMES.SI/1991/1.1.Evans.JBT.html
Review of Site #2: This is an article from the Theory & Psychology Journal called Theories of Human Reasoning: The Fragmented State of the Art. The author examines the current state of theory in the psychology of reasoning. It’s a little outdated because it’s from 1991, but I found it to be very interesting. It is a very long article, but the author goes over many interesting topics and provides explanations and examples. I noticed that he referenced the author of our text book as well. I would recommend this if someone wanted a different perspective or just wanted to read more on this subject.
Tags for Site #2: cog3310 cognitive-psychology reasoning
Rationale of tags for Site #2: I chose these tags because they name the topics the sites cover and I can easily find them by subject.
November 16th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Site #2
http://statpages.org/bayes.html
Review: Site gives clear introduction to Baye’s Theorem if one does not understand fully from the text. Gives thorough instruction, examples and a fun calculator to test out!
Tags: Cog 3310 Reasoning and Decision Making Baye’s Theorem
Rational: Topic discussed in text but not in class, good study tool for this chapter
November 16th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
Site 1:
http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/dedind.php
Review:
this site helped me understand inductive and deductive reasoning better. it is a very good site i think. it is just really informative.
tags:
cog3310, Chapter10Review
rationale:
cog3310 because we have to and thats what class it is for, and Chapter10Review to help me remember what chapter i am studying
site 2:
http://www.virtualsalt.com/crebook5.htm
review:
this site helped me to understand the concept of decision making better. I was having trouble with understanding the concept but after reading this site i have no trouble at all.
tags:
cog3310, Chapter10review
rationale:
cog3310 because we have to and thats what class it is for, and Chapter10Review to help me remember what chapter i am studying
November 16th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Site 1:
http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/dedind.htm
This site talks about inductive and deductive reasoning. It tells you how each of them work.
Tags: Cog3310, reasoning
Site 2:
http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/g/ga/gambler_s_fallacy.html
This site talks about prospect theory. I found it to be very interesting.
Tags: Cog3310, prospect theory