Response options and presentation format as contributors to conditional reasoning |
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Authors: | Charles M Dugan III Russell Revlin |
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a University of California, Santa Barbara, California, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | The present study examines whether students' inability to solve conditional reasoning problems, shown in previous studies, is at least partially attributable to having to choose among logically incorrect response options. In two experiments, students evaluated conclusions to conditional reasoning problems where one of several response options was either the standard, Sometimes true, or the more logically appropriate, Could be true. Decision accuracy was related to the logical appropriateness of the response options available. This relationship was replicated across different problem types and formats. |
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