RT Conference_Proceedings
T1 The role of scenario, deontic conditionals and problem content in Wason's selection task
A1 Martín Rajo, Montserrat
A1 Valiña García, María Dolores
A1 Evans, Jonathan St. B. T.
K1 Psychology
K1 Cognitive Psychology
K1 Psychology of thinking
K1 Psychology of reasoning
K1 Conditional reasoning
K1 Wason's selection task
K1 Pragmatic reasoning
K1 Deontic conditionals
K1 Psicología
K1 Psicología Cognitiva
K1 Psicología del pensamiento
K1 Psicología del razonamiento
K1 Razonamiento condicional
K1 Tarea de selección de Wason
K1 Razonamiento pragmático
K1 Condicionales deónticos
AB 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 performance was affected by the content used (permission rules were the best, neutral the worst and obligation rules intermediate) and by the use of scenarios. The scenario effect interacted significantly with the problem framing such that the presence of a scenario facilitate performance only when problems were framed in a deontic rather than indicative manner. The presence of scenarios did not interact with the problem content. These results are discussed in terms of pragmatic influences on reasoning, within the framework of the Dual Process Theory (Evans & Over, 1996)
YR 2014
FD 2014-11-03
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10347/11755
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10347/11755
LA eng
NO This paper was presented at "The European Conference on Cognitive Science. Siena, Italy, October 1999"
DS Minerva
RD 19 may 2026