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PSYC 496AN - Human Reasoning and Decision Making
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. 3.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 TO 3.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Examination Psychology Department Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Undergraduate Graduate

PSYC 496AN - Human Reasoning and Decision Making

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.*
3.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours
0.000 TO 3.000 Other hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture, Examination

Psychology Department

Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels:
Undergraduate
Graduate

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