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- Wason selection task - Wikipedia
In psychology, the Wason selection task (or four-card problem) is a logic puzzle devised by Peter Cathcart Wason in 1966 [1][2][3] It is one of the most famous tasks in the study of deductive reasoning [4]
- Making Sense of Wason - Psychology Today
Peter Wason originally designed the test to see if people applied logic that would disprove a hypothesis by falsifying it as well as by confirming it It goes like this: Imagine that you have the
- Wason Selection Task: What It Reveals About Reason | 2025
Learn what the Wason selection task is, what it reveals about human reasoning, and why it’s a key experiment in cognitive psychology
- The Wason Selection Task 1 - Philosophy Experiments
Well maybe, but the Wason Selection Task, as it is called, is one of the most oft repeated tests of logical reasoning in the world of experimental psychology
- Psychology Classics: Wason Selection Task (Part I)
Introduced as a test of his theory of confirmation bias, Wason’s task has ended up a widely used experimental paradigm for examining human reasoning in the domains of abstract logic, social conduct, and various other semantic contexts
- Confirmation Bias (Wason) - Learning Theories
Confirmation bias was first described in the 1960s, when several studies completed by the psychologist Peter Wason showed that people tend to seek out confirming evidence alone when drawing conclusions about simple tasks
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- Confirmation Bias and Wasons 2-4-6 Task: Why Being a . . .
As a Philosophy graduate student I taught Philosophy of Science to undergraduates Science is an epistemology, a way of knowing, and even if scientists have been wrong and sometimes extraordinary immorally wrong, science works Science helps us discover knowledge But why?
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