cognitive transfer, priming, & school:
cognitive transfer, priming, & school M. Atherton, “A Proposed Theory of the Neurological Limitations of Cognitive Transfer” (paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 9-13, 2007).
D. Landy, C. Allen, and C. Zednik, “A Perceptual Account of Abstract Mathematical Reasoning” (manuscript submitted for publication, 2007).
M. Osman, “Can Tutoring Improve Performance on a Reasoning Task Under Deadline Conditions?” Memory & Cognition 35, no. 2 (2007): 342-351.
The Wason Selection Task:
The Wason Selection Task
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7 elephant catfish 8 5 The above four cards are from a deck of cards that have animals on one side and numbers on the other side. “If there is a fish on one side of a card, there is an odd number on the other side of that card.” (elephant) (catfish) (8) (5)
The Distracter/Priming Task:
The Distracter/Priming Task Please use the above rules to insert commas in the appropriate place(s) in the following sentences by Rudyard Kipling; do not add a comma if none is needed:
1. “What is the good of a man” he said to himself at last “if he does not understand man's talk?”
2. “To a mud-spattered villager?” said Leo.
3. “Never mind him” said Kim.
4. “Well” said the Bull “What will you do?” Sarah said, “This example needs a comma.”
“This example also needs a comma,” Bruce declared.
Ashley concluded that “this example does not need a comma.”
The Experimental Conditions:
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