Thinking and Language

Thinking and Language

Section 3: Reasoning and decision making

Let's Revise

Answer the following questions based on section 3

Multiple Choice

The _______________________ heuristic allows people to make decisions based on the information available in their immediate consciousnesses.

• availability

• representative

Multiple Choice

When people make decisions based on their personal ideas or standards, they are using the _______________________ heuristic.

• anchoring

• availability

Multiple Choice

A decision made about a sample according to the population that the sample seems to represent, was made using the _______________________ heuristic.

• anchoring

• representative

Multiple Choice

A conclusion made using _______________________ reasoning will always be true if the premises on which it is based are true.

• deductive

• inductive

Multiple Choice

Because they are general statements, the conclusions that we make with _______________________ reasoning cannot always be proven true, though many can be proven false.

• deductive

• inductive