Why Are the Authors of Your Text Ultimately Reluctant to Accept

question 25

Multiple Choice

Why are the authors of your text ultimately reluctant to accept the unflattering view of human reasoning offered by research studies of, say, the confirmation bias and syllogistic reasoning?

• A) People actually perform fairly well on most of the reasoning tasks psychologists have studied in the laboratory.
• B) People would be unable to manage the world's demands as well as they do if they were as poor at reasoning as some research suggests.
• C) People's performance varies dramatically depending on the content of the reasoning task.
• D) People are heavily influenced by the plausibility of arguments, and by their consistency with the beliefs they already hold.

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