Author Question: When the Wason selection task is placed in a familiar context such as legal drinking age, ... (Read 80 times)

elizabeth18 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

When the Wason selection task is placed in a familiar context such as legal drinking age, participants

a. perform as well as they do on the original task
b. perform better than they do on the original task
c. perform worse than they do on the original task
d. do not make any errors

Question 2

Mark sees a man walk into a bank downtown. Suddenly, alarms sound, people scream, and Mark sees the same man run out of the bank carrying a gun and a bag of money. Because Mark has never seen such an occurrence before, he uses a ____ to deduce that the man is a robber.

a. conversion strategy
b. syllogistic schema
c. transitive-inference strategy
d. pragmatic reasoning schema