On the Classic Selection Task in Conditional Reasoning, People Work

question 45

Multiple Choice

On the classic selection task in conditional reasoning, people work on the problem, "If a card has a vowel on one side, then it has an even number on the other side." Research on variations of this task indicates that

• A) people consistently seek out negative information rather than positive information.
• B) the problem is easier to solve if it describes something concrete, such as drinking age.
• C) this is one of the few tasks that people can solve more accurately in their heads than when the problem is represented with concrete objects.
• D) people are systematically influenced by the representativeness heuristic.

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