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Direct linkEspino, Orlando; Santamaria, Carlos; Meseguer, Enrique; Carreiras, Manuel – Cognition, 2005
An eye-movement monitoring experiment was carried out to examine the effects of the difficulty of the problem (simple versus complex problems) and the type of figure (figure 1 or figure 4) on the time course of processing categorical syllogisms. The results showed that the course of influence for these two factors is different. We found early…
Descriptors: Probability, Thinking Skills, Cognitive Processes, Eye Movements
Peer reviewedCosmides, Leda; Tooby, John – Cognition, 1996
Eight experiments examined whether certain human problem-solving mechanisms should be expected to represent probability information in terms of frequency. Findings are consistent with literature indicating that frequentist representations eliminate various cognitive biases, including overconfidence, the conjunction fallacy, and base rate neglect.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Heuristics, Induction
