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Reasoning (psychology)

Posted byBrian Hopkins May 22, 2019

Goal-directed cognitive activity that may be based on formal logic or informal premises and everyday knowledge. 

See Abstract reasoning, Analogical reasoning, Cognition, Cognitive structures, Fluid intelligence, Logical reasoning, Moral judgments, Ravens’ Progressive Matrices (RPM), Problem solving, Spatial reasoning, Reasoning (genre theory)

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