{"id":8911,"date":"2019-05-22T16:12:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/reasoning_-psychology\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:12:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:12:51","slug":"reasoning_-psychology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/reasoning_-psychology\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasoning (psychology)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Goal-directed cognitive activity that may be based on formal logic or informal premises and everyday knowledge.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"abstract_reasoning\">Abstract reasoning<\/a>, <a href=\"analogical_reasoning\">Analogical reasoning<\/a>, <a href=\"cognition\">Cognition<\/a>, <a href=\"cognitive_structures\">Cognitive structures<\/a>, <a href=\"fluid_intelligence\">Fluid intelligence<\/a>, <a href=\"logical_reasoning\">Logical reasoning<\/a>, <a href=\"moral_judgments\">Moral judgments<\/a>, Ravens&#8217; Progressive Matrices (RPM), <a href=\"problem_solving\">Problem solving<\/a>, <a href=\"spatial_reasoning\">Spatial reasoning<\/a>, <a href=\"reasoning_-genre_theory-\">Reasoning (genre theory)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goal-directed cognitive activity that may be based on formal logic or informal premises and everyday knowledge.&nbsp; See Abstract reasoning, Analogical reasoning, Cognition, Cognitive structures, Fluid intelligence, Logical reasoning, Moral judgments, Ravens&#8217; Progressive Matrices (RPM), Problem solving, Spatial reasoning, Reasoning (genre theory)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}