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Cognition, Fifth Edition: Chapter 11

Instructions: For each question, click on the radio button beside your answer. When you have completed the entire quiz, click the “Submit my answers” button at the bottom of the page to receive your results.

Question 1:


a) Inductive logic
b) Categorical reasoning
c) Logicism
d) Parsimonious reasoning

Question 2:


a) The universal affirmative
b) The universal negative
c) The particular affirmative
d) The particular negative

Question 3:


a) Relational reasoning
b) Linear syllogism
c) Practical syllogism
d) Particular negative

Question 4:


a) Confirmation bias
b) Parsimony
c) Conditional reasoning
d) Truth tables

Question 5:


a) The generative problem
b) The social contract theory
c) A failure of parsimonious reasoning
d) Confirmation bias

Question 6:


a) True
b) False

Question 7:


a) True
b) False

Question 8:


a) True
b) False

Question 9:


a) True
b) False

Question 10:


a) True
b) False