Madison L Schulz, Catherine E Wood, Alison Fogarty, Stephanie J Brown, Deirdre Gartland, Rebecca Giallo
Intimate partner violence exposure during infancy and social functioning in middle childhood: An Australian mother and child cohort study
Child development
little consensus underlying parameters human reasoning two major theories proposed suppose different mechanisms mental model theory proposes people use working memory intensive processes order construct limited models problem parameters probabilistic theories propose reasoning process people use sum existing knowledge order generate estimate probability conclusion given problem parameters following initial proposition verschueren et al dualstrategy model supposes different approaches reasoning fact important individual difference specifically recently developed diagnostic questionnaire identified two major categories reasoners counterexample reasoners use mental model form processing statistical reasoners use probabilistic form processing following describe results show counterexamplestatistical distinction affects information processing across variety reasoning judgment tasks addition strategy use correlates performance different kinds thinking contingency judgments processing negative emotions susceptibility social biases although distinction related differences cognitive ability found predict performance differences recent results shown possible experimentally modify strategy use results suggest strategy use important individual difference affect performance wide variety contexts