Reading Questions for Dec. 17 Class

2-5 pm, room 301

Hypothesis testing

Klayman & Ha (1987)

• What is the positive test strategy? Is it normative? When does it result in more or fewer errors?

Trope & Liberman (1996)

• Does social psychology approach hypothesis testing any differently from cognitive psychology?

McKenzie (1998)

• Skip this article

Slowiaczek, Klayman, Sherman, & Skov (1992)

• Answer the question posed in the title of this paper

Improving reasoning

Gigerenzer & Hoffrage (1995)

• Skip this article

Nisbett, Fong, Lehman, & Cheng (1987)

Lehman, Lempert, & Nisbett (1988)

Larrick, Morgan, & Nisbett (1990)

• In these 3 papers, what kind of training improves reasoning and why? What specific types of reasoning can be improved with training?
  

Plus: Please list your top 3 articles from this class. That is, what 3 articles are (in your opinion) most fundamental to research on reasoning and problem solving?