Definition of physiological. 1  1 : of or relating to physiology. 2  2 : characteristic of or appropriate to an organism's healthy or normal functioning the sodium level was physiological. 3  3 : differing in, involving, or affecting physiological factors a physiological strain of bacteria.
Motivated reasoning is confirmation bias taken to the next level. Motivated reasoning leads people to confirm what they already believe, while ignoring contrary data. But it also drives people to develop elaborate rationalizations to justify holding beliefs that logic and evidence have shown to be wrong.
I. Definition. Deductive reasoning, or deduction, is one of the two basic types of logical inference. A logical inference is a connection from a first statement (a âpremiseâ) to a second statement (âthe conclusionâ) for which the rules of logic show that if the first statement is true, the second statement should be true.