Maxwell J Roberts
Biographic Data
| ID | 3655955 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maxwell J Roberts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maxwell J |
| FAMILY NAME | Roberts |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTS M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Essex |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Explaining inappropriate strategy selection in a simple reasoning task
People's strategy selections appear to reflect attempts to maximize performance by selecting the most effective option for a particular task or format. Theories that account for such behaviour will be named rational models of strategy selection. However, it is possible to find instances where people are apparently biased towards using less effective strategies, and such behaviour appears to go against these models. Two experiments are reported in…
Individual differences and strategy selection in reasoning
Although individuals may use different strategies in order to solve reasoning problems, few attempts have been made to understand the processes that lead to strategy choice. One exception to this is work with the sentence-picture verification task in which it has been found that high spatial ability individuals tend to use a strategy that involves spatial representations while low spatial ability individuals tend to use a strategy that involves v…
Putting context into context
Richardson (1996) criticises Roberts & Stevenson (1996) on two counts: that their classification of the commentaries used by Richardson (1991) is in error, and that this is also confounded with item difficulty. Both claims are refuted here: the first by a demonstration of the validity of the classification, the second by using published norms on item difficulty. It is concluded that Richardson has not supplied evidence that disproves the existenc…
Reasoning with Raven — with and without help
Richardson (1991) showed that children's performance at items from Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices could be boosted by converting the elements to real‐life objects and setting them in a realistic context. From this, he concluded that people reason exclusively by using context dependent schemas and hence that measures of abstract reasoning ability may give a misleading impression of children's skills and potential. However, each realistic co…
The sentence—picture verification task
The sentence‐picture verification task has received a great deal of attention over the years, and it has been a source of many interesting findings concerning the relationships between individual differences in people's abilities, task performance and strategy selection. However, there are a number of problems with interpreting data from this task as it appears to be particularly difficult to reliably classify subjects into distinct strategy grou…
Individual differences and strategy selection in reasoning
Although individuals may use different strategies in order to solve reasoning problems, few attempts have been made to understand the processes that lead to strategy choice. One exception to this is work with the sentence-picture verification task in which it has been found that high spatial ability individuals tend to use a strategy that involves spatial representations while low spatial ability individuals tend to use a strategy that involves v…
The sentence—picture verification task
The sentence‐picture verification task has received a great deal of attention over the years, and it has been a source of many interesting findings concerning the relationships between individual differences in people's abilities, task performance and strategy selection. However, there are a number of problems with interpreting data from this task as it appears to be particularly difficult to reliably classify subjects into distinct strategy grou…
Putting context into context
Richardson (1996) criticises Roberts & Stevenson (1996) on two counts: that their classification of the commentaries used by Richardson (1991) is in error, and that this is also confounded with item difficulty. Both claims are refuted here: the first by a demonstration of the validity of the classification, the second by using published norms on item difficulty. It is concluded that Richardson has not supplied evidence that disproves the existenc…
Reasoning with Raven — with and without help
Richardson (1991) showed that children's performance at items from Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices could be boosted by converting the elements to real‐life objects and setting them in a realistic context. From this, he concluded that people reason exclusively by using context dependent schemas and hence that measures of abstract reasoning ability may give a misleading impression of children's skills and potential. However, each realistic co…
Individual differences and strategy selection in reasoning
Although individuals may use different strategies in order to solve reasoning problems, few attempts have been made to understand the processes that lead to strategy choice. One exception to this is work with the sentence-picture verification task in which it has been found that high spatial ability individuals tend to use a strategy that involves spatial representations while low spatial ability individuals tend to use a strategy that involves v…
Explaining inappropriate strategy selection in a simple reasoning task
People's strategy selections appear to reflect attempts to maximize performance by selecting the most effective option for a particular task or format. Theories that account for such behaviour will be named rational models of strategy selection. However, it is possible to find instances where people are apparently biased towards using less effective strategies, and such behaviour appears to go against these models. Two experiments are reported in…
Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (3 works) · Selection (genetic algorithm) (3 works) · Task (project management) (3 works) · Cognition (2 works) · Context (archaeology) (2 works)