Author: Minna Cheves Wilkins

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-10-04

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 9781333841447

Excerpt from The Effect of Changed Material on Ability to Do Formal Syllogistic Reasoning Thorndike11 reports* an experiment on the effect of changed data on reasoning. He had 97 graduate students solve a series of nine simple problems in algebra, the problems being expressed in the usual way and then changed to a less usual expression. The amount of change varied. He concludes that any disturbance whatsoever in the concrete particulars rea soned about will interfere somewhat with the reasoning, mak ing it less correct or slower or both. He cites. These results as indicating the importance of habit in reasoning, and de fines reasoning as the organization and cooperation of habits. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.