Browsing by Subject "Cognitive Psychology"
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Comparing Measures of Individual Differences in Performance of Conditional Reasoning
(Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 1997)This study examined the following issues: 1) The relation among different measures in psychometric ability tests (verbal comprehension and reasoning), computerised measure of comprehension skills and the subjects´ performance ... -
Conditional Reasoning: Scenario or Context Effects?
(1992-09)This paper studies the importance of contextual factors in reasoning with conditional inference tasks. In this experiment subjects were given conditional sentences in the context of narrative texts. Short stories about ... -
Conditional Reasoning: The importance of individual differences
(2014-06-19)In this study, we explore the relation between different measures in psychometric ability tests (verbal comprehension and reasoning) and performance in Wason's selection task (Wason, 1966, 1968). We also examined whether ... -
La tarea de selección de Wason: pasado y presente
(2008)Peter Wason (1924-2003) planteó muchos de los temas que han centrado la atención de los investigadores en Psicología Cognitiva durante las últimas décadas. Su libro Psychology of Reasoning: Structure and Content, publicado ... -
Pragmatic factors in conditional reasoning with narrative texts
(1997)In this study the role of pragmatic knowledge in conditional reasoning was investigated (Cheng & Holyoak, 1985; Holyoak & Cheng, 1995). We tried to precisely determine the importance of the variable which we refer to as ... -
The role of scenario, deontic conditionals and problem content in Wason´s selection task
(2014-11-03)This experiment explores the influence of thematic content, the presence or absence of a scenario and the use of deontic or indicative framing of conditional rules on performance on Wason’s selection task. Logical ... -
Tres décadas de investigación en una tarea de razonamiento hipotético-deductivo
(2014-06-06)[ENG]The publication of The Psychology of Deductive Reasoning and Mental Models, in the early eighties, represent two historical events in the Psychology of Reasoning. The first book was published in 1982 by Jonathan St.B.T. ... -
Wason´s selection task: Content effect, instruction effect or both?
(2014-10-28)This experiment explores the effect of the scenario’s availability, instruction (true/false vs. violation) and presentation order on performance in different versions of Wason’s selection task. Each subject was given ...