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Farris, Hilary H.; Revlin, Russell. (1989). Sensible reasoning in two tasks: Rule discovery and hypothesis evaluation. Memory and Cognition, 17 (2) , pp. 221-232.

Type of Resource: Journal Article
(ISSN: 0090-502X)

A study involving college undergraduates that assessed their hypothesis testing skills. The results of experiments 1 and 2 showed that students consistently employed a disconfirmation strategy when assessing hypotheses but employed a counterfactual strategy when they were also required to generate an hypothesis. Experiment 3 suggested that the selection of hypothesis testing strategy was impacted by both the logical task requirements and the desirability of possible outcomes.

Research / Psychological / Problem solving / Decision making / Process / Problem identification / Models / Age / Adults / Theory

CBIR Record Number: 79530