Psychology ETDs

Publication Date

9-22-1975

Abstract

An experiment tested the effectiveness of three training procedures on the ability of college subjects to solve complex conditional sentence reasoning problems. Each of these groups of subjects was given one of three brief training courses based on the major component skills of conditional sentence reasoning. These training procedures were (1) training in the relevance and application of falsification as an hypothesis testing strategy, (2) truth table training on conditional and biconditional rules, and (3) conversion training which demonstrated the fallacy of assuming the converse of a conditional streamer.

Degree Name

Psychology

Level of Degree

Doctoral

Department Name

Psychology

First Committee Member (Chair)

Peder Jack Johnson

Second Committee Member

Joseph Anthony Parsons

Third Committee Member

John Paul Gluck Jr.

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

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