RT Conference_Proceedings
T1 Individual differences in deductive reasoning: Formal and Thematic Wason's THOG problems
A1 Valiña García, María Dolores
A1 Seoane Pesqueira, Gloria
A1 Martín Rajo, Montserrat
A1 Rodríguez González, María Soledad
A1 Ferraces Otero, María José
K1 Psychology
K1 Psychology of thinking
K1 Psychology of reasoning
K1 Thog problem
K1 Individual differences
AB 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 to replicate and expand our previous studies of individualdifferences, both in conditional reasoning (Seoane, Valiña, Ferraces &Martín, 1997; Valiña, Seoane, Ferraces & Martín, 1993; 1995; 2000) anddisjunctive reasoning (Martín, Seoane, Valiña & Ferraces, 1998; Martín &Valiña, 2002; 2003).Specifically, this study centred on individual differences in areasoning task: The THOG problem (Wason, 1977; Wason & Brooks,1979). This is one of the tasks conceived by Peter Wason to “explore thenature of thought” (Evans & Johnson-Laird, 2003, p. 178).Concretely, the aims of this study were: (1) To investigate therelationships between the subjects´ performance on various computerizedtests of cognitive abilities and the subjects´ reasoning with the THOGproblem, and (2) to analyze the influence of rule content (formal anddifferent thematic versions of the task) and instructions (standard / oneother)on the subjects´ performance with the THOG problem
YR 2003
FD 2003
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/10065
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/10065
LA eng
NO This paper was presented at XIII Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology. A posterior version was published in Psicothema (2007), 19 (2), 206 - 211
DS Minerva
RD 28 abr 2026