Children's performance in the selection task
Plausibility and familiarity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5269386 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vittorio Girotto (University of Padua, corresponding author), Michel Gilly, Agnés Blaye (0000-0002-4514-6519), Paul Light (The Open University) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 80 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 79-95 |
| Publication date | 1989-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1269 • E-ISSN: 2044-8295 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1989.tb02304.x |
| OpenAlex | W2086688701 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
Three experiments exploring the effects of the activation of pragmatic schemas on children's reasoning performance are reported. Pragmatic schemas are defined as clusters of rules concerning actions and goals. Previous results indicated that by evoking 'permission' and 'obligation' schemas it is possible to facilitate adults' performance on Wason's selection task as well as that of children in a 'reduced' version of the same task. Experiment 1 demonstrated that both 9-10- and 14-15-year-olds (n = 160) could produce a high rate of correct performance in the complete version of the task, both when phrased in terms of a familiar permission and of an explicitly rationalized non-familiar permission. Experiment 2 (n = 40) and 3 (n = 48) demonstrated that 10-year-olds could solve the task even when the permission rule was not familiar and was plausible only in virtue of the availability of an implicit rationale. Developmental and general aspects of these results are briefly discussed
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Epistemology · Obligation · Permission · Selection (genetic algorithm) · Task (project management) · Artificial Intelligence · Child and Animal Learning Development · Computer Science · Educational and Psychological Assessments · Educational Strategies and Epistemologies · Psychology · Social Psychology
Measuring Rational Thinking in Adolescents
Reasoning on Deontic Rules
On selecting evidence to test hypotheses
Role of Responsibility in Conditional Reasoning
Conditionals
Relevance theory explains the selection task
Contextual Determination of Human Thinking
Role of Responsibility in Conditional Reasoning
Domain-specific reasoning
Social significance of tasks, routines, and pragmatic schemas in distribution activities
Toward a Cultural-Historical Perspective on the Selection Task
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.31 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2024 (34) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |