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Ford, Marilyn – Cognition, 1995
Protocols of people attempting to solve syllogistic problems and explaining how they reached their conclusions were examined. Two main groups of subjects were identified. One group represented the relationship between classes in a spatial manner supplemented by verbal representation. The other group used a primarily verbal representation. A…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, College Students, Critical Thinking, Logic