7. Reasoning & decision making

• reasoning
• decision making
• idealized reasoning
• logic / logical operators
• truth table
• conditional
• valid and invalid inferences
• cooperative principle
• abstract rule (syntactic) theories
• natural deduction theory (Braine)
• comprehension errors
• heuristic inadequacy (quasi-logical rules; biases)
• processing errors
• concrete rule theories
• Wason's selection task
• mental model theory
• Johnson-Laird's mental model theory
• comprehension of premises
• conclusion-forming procedures
• revision procedures
• spatial reasoning
• syllogism
• idealized decision making
• deterministic / probabilistic models
• compensatory/noncompensatory models
• elimination by aspects
• Bayes' theorem
• heuristics & biases in decision making (Kahneman & Tversky)
• ignoring base rates / prior probabilities
• availability heuristic
• representativeness heuristic (stereotypes)
• are humans rational?