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Course
outline Week 11: Assignment 11
Your last recorded submission was on 2023-04-12, 21:38 IST Due date: 2023-04-12, 23:59 IST.
How does an All Questions are Compulsory
NPTEL online Marks [1 x 10 = 10]
course work?
() 1) If a person has five letters in his/her name, then s/he is a Glirple. Fred now 1 point
reasons that anyone who is a Glirple must have five letters in his/her name. Fred has:
Week 0:
Prerequisite ()
made a correct inference according to modus ponens.
made a correct inference according to modus tollens.
Week 01: committed the fallacy of denying the antecedent.
History and committed the fallacy of affirming the consequent.
Research
Methods of
2) Conclusions that agree with one’s previous beliefs: 1 point
Cognitive
Psychology () are often judged as valid even when they are not.
are often judged as invalid even when they are not.
Week 02:
Object are more often judged correctly as valid or invalid than conclusions that disagree
Perception with one’s previous beliefs.
and lead to biases known as “content effects.”
Recognition ()
3) Manish is debating with his mother about the best way to build their new 1 point
Week 03: shed. Manish is a very traditional person who likes to employ tried-and-true logic. What
Attentional kind of reasoning would Manuel be most likely to use?
Processes
and Cognition deductive reasoning
() inductive reasoning
conditional reasoning
Week 04:
Memory intuitive reasoning
Introduction ()
4) In completing Wason’s four-card task, participants usually: 1 point
Week 05:
Long Term
turn over the two cards that are necessary and sufficient to test the rule.
Memory () turn over all four cards, when only two would have been sufficient.
turn over all four cards, when only one would have been sufficient.
Week 06: show understanding of modus ponens but neglect modus tollens.
Memory of
General
5) ________ statements are those that are either true or false. 1 point
Knowledge ()
Week 07: Syllogistic
Concept Relevant
Formation () Propositional
Conditional
Week 08:
Visual and 6) The ease of reasoning about an analogy depends on all of these factors 1 point
Spatial EXCEPT:
Memory ()
the difficulty of comprehending the individual terms in the analogy.
Week 09: the reasoner’s knowledge about the individual terms.
Human the difficulty of finding a relationship between the first two terms.
Language
Skills ()
the reasoner’s amount of training in formal reasoning procedures.

7) “If a person is drinking a beer, then the person must be over 19 years old.” 1 point
Week 10:
Thought Participants are asked to test this rule using information on four cards; each card has a
Process and person’s beverage on one side and the person’s age on the other. The four cards are now
Problem presented as follows: “beer,” “coke,” “16 years old,” and “20 years old.” Which of the
Solving () following describes the behavior of most college students who complete this variation of
the four-card task?
Week 11:
Most turn over only the “beer” card.
Reasoning ()
Most turn over the “beer” and “20 years old” cards.
Lec 1 : Most turn over the “beer” and “16 years old” cards.
Reasoning - 01
(unit?
Most turn over the “beer” and “coke” cards.
unit=73&lesson=74)
8) Let p = “Mary got an A on her exam” and q = “John got a C on his exam.” In 1 point
Lec 2 :
which of the following situations is the statement “p Ú q” true?
Reasoning - 02
(unit?
Mary and John both got A’s.
unit=73&lesson=75)
Mary got an A and John got a C.
Text Notes
It is true when Mary and John both got A’s, and it is true when Mary and John
(unit?
unit=73&lesson=76)
both got C’s.
It is true when Mary and John both got A’s, when Mary and John both got C’s,
Week 11:
and when Mary got an A and John got a C.
Feedback form
(unit?
unit=73&lesson=77)
9) Patients with prefrontal cortex damage tend to show deficits in their: 1 point

Quiz: Week 11: intelligence.

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