Cox and Griggs

Question 1

Aim

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To investigate if matching bias would be less commonly used to solve the Wason selection task when it was more personally relevant

Question 2

Participants

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144 university psychology students

Question 3

Proceadure

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-144 participants were split into 6 conditions
-Each condition was given the same 3 problems, however for each condition they were ordered differently
-The tasks consisted of the abstract task, the memory cueing task, and the intermediet task

Question 4

Results

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-3% correctly solved the abstract task
43% correctly solved the intermediate task
60% correctly solved the memory cueing task
-It was also found that if the abstract task was presented first, that matching bias was less commonly used for the rest of the tasks
-It appears that when the task cued a past memory of an experience, a more rational approach was chosen to choose the cards
-The more abstract and less relevant the task, the more likely that cognitive biasis were used to solve the problem