Human Reasoning: The Psychology of Deduction

by Jonathan St. B.T. Evans

Book Overview

Deductive reasoning is widely regarded as an activity central to human intelligence, and as such has attracted an increasing amount of psychological study in recent years. In this first major survey of the field for over a decade, the authors provide a detailed and balanced review of all the main kinds of deductive reasoning task studied by psychologists. Topics covered include conditional and disjunctive reasoning, the Wason selection task, relational...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0863773141
• ISBN13: 9780863773143
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.0"