The questionable utility of “cognitive ability” in explaining cognitive illusions
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CommentarylStanovich & West: Individual differences in reasoning The questionable utility of "cognitive ability" in explaining cognitive illusions
The nation of "cognitive ability" leads to paradoxical condusions when invoked to explain Inhelder and Piaget's research on dass indusion reasoning and research on the indusion rule in the heuristics-andbiases program. The vague distinction between associative and rule-based reasoning overlooks the human capacity for semantic and pragmatic inferences, and consequently, makes intelligent inferen...
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عنوان ژورنال: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0140-525X,1469-1825
DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x00363439