Book:
Rules for Reasoning
Editors:
Nisbett, R. E.
Type:
Category:
Pages:
340-357
Year:
1993
Publisher:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Place:
Hillsdale, NJ
Abstract:
Does an undergraduate education improve reasoning about everyday-life problems? Do some forms of undergraduate training enhance certain types of reasoning more than others? These issues have not been addressed in a methodologically rigorous manner (Nickerson, Perkins, & Smith, 1985). We consequently have little knowledge of whether reasoning can be improved by instruction, yet this question has long been regarded as central the theories of cognitive development.