Exam 10: Reasoning and Decision Making

The skill of evaluating the validity of syllogism conclusions correctly cannot be improved with training.

Which of the following is a valid form of conditional reasoning?

The belief that one "can't lose" is known as the gambler's fallacy.

Suppose more people who watch television news daily believe they are personally at risk for violent crime compared to people who never watch the news.Which concept might explain this difference?

If you interpret "All A are C" to imply that "All C are A," then you are guilty of

Jane test drove three new cars and discovered that each had different acceleration and braking features.She chose to buy the car with the fastest acceleration and the fastest braking.This best illustrates a decision ______________________.

All "A are B"."Some B are C".It then necessarily follows that

The premises made in a syllogism are certain, even though they may not be true in the real world.

Deductive reasoning was useful in the evolution and natural selection of humans.

When people are required to make judgments based on probabilities,

Animals are as capable of reasoning as humans are.

Suppose an executive creates a model of her business, including such factors as product demand, trade restrictions, and labor costs.Then she imagines how these factors will play out in the coming year.She uses the predictions as a way of making decisions about whether to hire or fire workers.The executive is relying on the

Cross-cultural work on human reasoning suggests that

Humans prefer to reject their beliefs rather than confirm them.

If concealed guns are legal, then the violent crime rate will go up.One valid way to confirm this conditional statement is to:

Which of the following is not a reason why people make mistakes in syllogistic Reasoning?

Decisions made under uncertainty are the most realistic and common.

What is a good technique to use in solving the Wason 4-card experiment?

Research conducted in rural Central Asia showed that people in some cultures base their response to reasoning tasks on

People have a strong tendency to seek evidence that upholds their beliefs.This is called