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Aßfalg, André; Klauer, Karl Christoph – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
We consider the proposition that reasoners represent causal conditionals such as "if John studies hard, he will do well in the test" as a causal model in which the antecedent ("John studies hard") is a potential cause of the consequent ("John does well in the test"). Some studies suggest that reasoners ignore…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Causal Models, Evaluative Thinking, Probability
Jungwirth, Ehud – Gifted Education International, 1989
A logical thinking test containing logical fallacies was administered to groups of 16-year-old and 17-year-old students (N=437) in Austria, Israel, and the Philippines. Students considered very able performed satisfactorily when required to choose a logically sound option, but exhibited weak performance when test items required a logically…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Evaluative Thinking, Foreign Countries, Gifted