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Peer reviewedCheng, Patricia W.; And Others – Cognitive Psychology, 1986
Three experiments using college students examine the processes involved in deductive reasoning. Effects of training in classroom and laboratory situations confirmed the authors' hypothesis that people use pragmatic reasoning schemas rather than syntactics rules of logic for problem solving. Training materials used in experiments 1 and 3 are…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Mapping, College Students, Deduction
