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ONE way to study the processes of human reasoning is to observe the behaviour of different people as they wrestle with a variety of “reasoning problems”. If these problems are comparable in some way, so that they can be related in terms of common features, and differentiated on the basis of idiosyncratic ones, it may prove possible to decide what features of a problem are of importance in influencing reasoning behaviour, and what “mechanisms of reasoning” these features call on.
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WOOD, D. Approach to the Study of Human Reasoning. Nature 223, 101–102 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/223101a0
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