Pragmatic reasoning schemata are
a. general knowledge structures that evaluate practical situations.
b. specific knowledge structures that evaluate practical situations.
c. general knowledge structures that contain sequences of events.
d. specific knowledge structures that contain sequences of events.
Question 2Griggs and Cox's memory retrieval explanation of conditional reasoning was supported by their finding that American subjects performed better on a concrete task if it required
a. evaluating a postal rule.
b. evaluating a drinking-age rule.
c. Both evaluating a postal and a drinking-age rule
d. Neither evaluating a postal nor a drinking-age rule
Question 3The findings of Wason and Johnson-Laird suggest that people usually
a. correctly test abstract logical statements by searching for confirming evidence.
b. correctly test abstract logical statements by searching for disconfirming evidence.
c. incorrectly test abstract logical statements by searching for confirming evidence.
d. incorrectly test abstract logical statements by searching for disconfirming evidence.
Question 4If told that there is a number on one side of a card and a letter on the other side, which of the cards (X, Y, 4, 5) must you turn over to evaluate the rule 'If there is X on one side of the card, then there is a 4 on the other side'?
a. X and Y c. X and 5
b. X and 4 d. X only
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