TITLE:
The Influence of Semantic and Pragmatic Factors in Wason’s Selection Task: State of the Art
AUTHORS:
María Dolores Valiña, Montserrat Martín
KEYWORDS:
Thinking, Reasoning, Conditional Reasoning, Wason’s Selection Task
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.7 No.6,
June
27,
2016
ABSTRACT: One of the cognitive processes, which has
generated more research within the framework of the Psychology of thinking, is
human reasoning. Throughout the history of the Psychology of reasoning, one of
the experimental tasks most frequently used to study how subjects reason, and
why they make mistakes, is the Wason’s selection task or the four card problem
(Wason, 1966, 1968). This work presents the current state of the experimental
research on this task, using as a common thread the empirical studies which
have highlighted the plasticity of reasoning towards semantic and pragmatic
factors.