Human Reasoning and Decision Making

3 credits

Class will explore human reasoning and decision making processes from a cognitive psychology perspective. Topics include formal reasoning, heuristics, algorithms, creativity, flexibility in decision making, errors in human reasoning, the origins of such errors, affective forecasting, discounting, and the exploitation of reasoning errors and inference by unscrupulous advertisers and others. ***Prerequisite: PSYC 270 and PSYC 305.*** *Note: This course will initially be restricted to PSYC majors. Non-majors will be eligible to register at a later point if space remains.*