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Chater, Nick; Oaksford, Mike – Cognitive Psychology, 1999
Proposes a probability heuristic model for syllogistic reasoning and confirms the rationality of this heuristic by an analysis of the probabilistic validity of syllogistic reasoning that treats logical inference as a limiting case of probabilistic inference. Meta-analysis and two experiments involving 40 adult participants and using generalized…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Heuristics
Sorsana, Christine; Trognon, Alain – Human Development, 2011
This theoretical paper discusses some conceptual and methodological obstacles that one encounters when analyzing the contextual determination of thinking in psychology. First, we comment upon the various representations of the "cognitive" individual that have been formed over the years--from the epistemic subject to the psychological subject, and…
Descriptors: Psychological Studies, Barriers, Research Methodology, Cognitive Processes
Burns, Bruce D. – Cognitive Psychology, 2004
Gigerenzer (2000) and Anderson (1990) analyzed reasoning by asking: what are the reasoner's goals? This emphasizes the adaptiveness of behavior rather than whether a belief is normative. Belief in the ''hot hand'' in basketball suggests that players experiencing streaks should be given more shots, but this has been seen as a fallacy due to…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Beliefs, Adjustment (to Environment), Markov Processes