Reisberg: Chapter 12—Judgment and Reasoning
Reisberg: Chapter 12—Judgment and Reasoning
(Pages 427-440 & 448-462)
• Describe the Availability Heuristic
• Describe the Representativeness Heuristic (also discussed in the Workbook
assignment this week).
• Why is covariation important? Describe how the confirmation bias and baserate information influence covariation.
• Compare/Contrast induction and deduction.
• What is a conditional statement? What arguments lead to a correct
conclusion? You will practice with the Wason Selection Task in the ZAPS this
week.
• How can “framing” influence decision-making?
Reisberg: Chapter 13—Problem Solving and Intelligence
• When comparing problem solving to a process of search what is the initial
state? What are the set of operators? What are path constraints? What is
the problem space?
• Describe the following problem-solving heuristics: (1) hill-climbing strategy,
(2) means-ends analysis, and (3) analogies.
• What is functional fixedness?
• What is Einstellung?
• Describe Wallas’s four stages of creative thought: (1) preparation, (2)
incubation, (3) illumination, and (4) verification.
• What is reliability? What is validity?
• What is general intelligence (g)?
• Compare/Contrast fluid and crystalized intelligence.
• Define practical intelligence and emotional intelligence.
• What evidence is there to support the importance of nature (genetics) in
intelligence?
• What evidence is there to support the importance of nurture (environment)
in intelligence?
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