RT Conference_Proceedings
T1 Wason's selection task: Content effect, instruction effect or both?
A1 Valiña García, María Dolores
A1 Seoane Pesqueira, Gloria
A1 Ferraces Otero, María José
A1 Martín Rajo, Montserrat
K1 Psychology
K1 Cognitive Psychology
K1 Psychology of thinking
K1 Psychology of reasoning
K1 Wason's selection task
K1 Psicología
K1 Psicología Cognitiva
K1 Psicología del pensamiento
K1 Psicología del razonamiento
K1 Razonamiento condicional
K1 Tarea de selección de Wason
AB 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 three problems corresponding to the content of the three different rules (abstract content, thematic-permission and thematic-norm). The main analyses are presented in terms of matching and logical index (Pollard and Evans, 1987). The matching and logical index were influenced by the contents of the rules. Also there exist an interaction between instructions and content in the logical index. In the abstract version, as in the thematic-obligation, the logical indices are superior on the individuals that receive violation instructions, whilst that in the thematic-permission the best performance was registered with true/false instructions. The results are not consistent-with syntactic theories of human reasoning, and are discussed in terms of pragmatic and semantic theories of human reasoning.
YR 2014
FD 2014-10-28
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/11729
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/11729
LA eng
NO This paper was presented at the THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THINKING. British Psychological Society. Cognitive Psychology Section. University College London. August, 1996"
DS Minerva
RD 30 abr 2026