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Dumas, Denis; Alexander, Patricia A.; Baker, Lisa M.; Jablansky, Sophie; Dunbar, Kevin N. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2014
Relational reasoning, which has been defined as the ability to discern meaningful patterns within any informational stream, is a foundational cognitive ability associated with education, including in scientific domains. This study entailed the analysis of instructional conversations in which an attending clinical neurologist and his team of…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Abstract Reasoning, Logical Thinking, Clinical Diagnosis

Revlin, Russell; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1978
The conversion model of formal reasoning was examined for its ability to predict the decisions made by college students when solving concrete and abstract syllogisms. Results supported the model's contentions that reasoner's decisions reflect natural language processes in the encoding of syllogistic premises, and follow rationally from…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Higher Education

Frederiksen, Norman; Evans, Franklin R. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1974
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Anxiety, Creative Thinking, Logical Thinking

Linn, Marcia C.; Swiney, John F., Jr. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1981
To investigate the role expectation based rules governing formal reasoning performance, a battery of group and individual aptitude measures and formal reasoning tests were administered to 17-year-olds. Individual differences in usage of these rules were clarified by establishing an overlap between an aptitude model and formal reasoning.…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Aptitude, Aptitude Tests, Expectation