This study forms part of a wider research project aimed at investigating relationships between cognitive skills and performance on experimental reasoning tasks (Stanovich, 1999; Stanovich & West, 1998). The study aims ...

Con las I Jornadas de Psicología del Pensamiento se pretendió llevar a cabo una reunión científica que sirviese de punto de encuentro a profesores e investigadores, de las distintas Universidades españolas, que trabajan ...

The main objective of this experiment is to determine in what way the subjects´s knowledge of the real world modulates their performance in a conditional reasoning task with narrative contexts, in line with previous ...

One of the cognitive processes, which has generated more research within the framework of the Psychology of thinking is human reasoninig. Through the history of the Psychology of reasoning one of the experimental task most ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

[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. ...

The study of thinking has been influenced by the development of Psychology as a science. The different schools of thinking have helped to define the study of human thinking. The objective of this work is to analyse ...