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Psychology

The science that deals with the mental and behaviourial characteristics of an individual, community or society.

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Analogical encoding

Psychology; General psychology

A technique in which people compare two problems that illustrate a principle. This technique is designed to help people discover similar structural features of cases or problems.

Reasoning

Psychology; General psychology

A process by which people start with information and draw conclusions that go beyond that information.

Permission schema

Psychology; General psychology

A form of pragmatic reasoning that states that if a person satisfies condition A, then they have permission to carry out action B.

Deductive reasoning

Psychology; General psychology

Reasoning involving syllogisms in which a conclusion logically follows from premises. • The conclusion is definitely true.

Inductive reasoning

Psychology; General psychology

Reasoning in which a conclusion follows from a consideration of evidence. • The conclusion is probably true, but it could be false.

Syllogism

Psychology; General psychology

A series of three statements: two statements (premises) followed by a third statement (conclusion). The conclusions can follow from the premises based on the rules of logic.