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Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Author(s) | Ruth M.J. Byrne / Jonathan St.B.T. Evans / Stephen E. Newstead |
Subtitle | The Psychology Of Deduction |
Edition | 1 |
Published | 9th June 1993 |
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The Psychology Of Deduction
Deductive reasoning is widely regarded as an activity central to human intelligence, and as such has attracted an increasing amount of psychological study in recent years. In this first major survey of the field for over a decade, the authors provide a detailed and balanced review of all the main kinds of deductive reasoning task studied by psychologists. Topics covered include conditional and disjunctive reasoning, the Wason selection task, relational inference and reasoning with syllogisms and quantifiers. Throughout the review, a careful distinction is drawn between the main empirical findings in the field and the major theoretical approaches proposed to account for these findings. Discussion of experimental findings is organized around three central questions: