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Chan, David; Chua, Fookkee – Cognition, 1994
Argues that the syntactic and mental model accounts of the suppression effect in deductive reasoning are inadequate. Proposes a relative salience model. Describes a test of predictions from this model in a suppression model, which obtained evidence of convergent validity for the salience construct. Results could not be reconciled with either the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Context Clues, Deduction