Which of the following is an example of deductive thinking?
A) figuring out who was the killer in a Perry Mason story by carefully considering all of the clues
B) predicting what a friend would do in a particular situation based on your thorough knowledge of how this friend reacts
C) developing a theory of planetary motion by observing the movement of planets in the night sky
D) None of the above
Question 2
Which of the following is an example of inductive thinking?
A) reasoning that a man will be able to hit a golf ball further than a woman because men generally have greater muscle development than women
B) assuming that the sun will rise tomorrow morning because we know that the earth will continue to rotate and the sun will not burn out for billions of years
C) assuming that there is something that we name intelligence because we notice that problem solving measures show differences between people that seem to be consistent over time
D) None of the above
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