Working memory capacity and a notorious brain teasers: The case of the monty hall dilemma

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 123-131

  De Neys, Wim ^a   Verschueren, Niki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Individual differences; Monty Hall Dilemma; Reasoning; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY;

EID: 33746595666     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169.53.1.123     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Baddeley, A. D., & Hitch, G. J. (1974). Working memory. In G. Bower (Ed.), Recent advances in learning and motivation (Vol. 8, pp. 47-90). New York: Academic Press.
2. Bethell-Fox, C. E., & Shepard, R. N. (1988). Mental rotation: Effects of stimulus complexity and familiarity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 14, 12-23.
3. Burns, B. D., & Wieth, M. (2004). The collider principle in causal reasoning: Why the monty hall dilemma is so hard. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 133, 434-449.
4. De Neys, W., d'Ydewalle, G., Schaeken, W., & Vos, G. (2002). A Dutch, computerized, and group administrable adaptation of the operation span test. Psychologica Belgica, 42, 177-190.
5. Engle, R. W., Tuholski, S. W., Laughlin, J. E., & Conway, A. R. A (1999). Working memory, short-term memory, and general fluid intelligence: A latent-variable ap proach. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 128, 309-331.
6. Epstein, S. (1994). Integration of the cognitive and psychodynamic unconscious. American Psychologist, 49, 709-724.
7. Evans, J. St. B. T (2003). In two minds: Dual-process accounts of reasoning. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 454-459.
8. Evans, J. St. B. T., & Over, D. E. (1996). Rationality and reasoning. Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
9. Falk, R. (1992). A closer look at the probabilities of the notorious three prisoners. Cognition, 77, 197-213.
10. Friedman, D. (1998). Monty Hall's three doors: Construction and deconstruction of a choice anomaly. American Economic Review, 88, 933-946.
11. Geiger, M. A. (1997). Educators' warnings about changing examination answers: Effects on students perceptions and performance. College Student Journal, 31, 429-432.
12. Gilovich, T., Medvec, V. H., & Chen, S. (1995). Commission, omission, and dissonance reduction: Coping with regret in the "Monty Hall" problem. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 21, 185-190.
13. Granberg, D., & Brown, T. A. (1995). The Monty Hall dilemma. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 21, 182-190.
14. Ichikawa, S. (1981). Rated ease of memorization of dot-in-matrix patterns: Multiple regression analysis by physical variables which describe configuration of dots. Japanese Psychological Research, 25, 173-180.
15. Johnson-Laird, P. N., Legrenzi, P., Girotto, P., Legrenzi, M. S., & Caverni, J-P (1999). Naive probability: A mental model theory of extensional reasoning. Psychological Review, 106, 62-88.
16. Kahneman, D., Slovic, P., & Tversky, A. (1982). Judgement under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.
17. Klaczynski, P. A. (2000). Is rationality really "bounded" by information processing constraints? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, 683-684.
18. Krauss, S., & Wang, X. T. (2003). The psychology of the Monty Hall Problem: Discovering psychological mechanisms for solving a tenacious brain teaser. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 132, 3-22.
19. La Pointe, L. B., & Engle, R. W. (1990). Simple and complex word spans as measures of working memory capacity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 16, 1118-1133.
20. Miyake, A., Friedman, N. P., Rettinger, D. A., Shah, P., Hegarty, M. (2001). How are visuospatial working memory, executive functioning, and spatial abilities related? A latent-variable analysis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 130, 621-640.
21. Newton, E. J., & Roberts, M. J. (2003). Individual differences transcend the rationality debate. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 26, 530-531.
22. Piattelli-Palmarini, M. (1994). Inevitable illusions: How mistakes of reason rule our minds. New York: Wiley.
23. Rosenthal, R., & Rosnow, R. L. (1991). Essentials of behavioral research: Methods and data analysis (2nd Ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.
24. Schechter, B. (1998). My brain is open: The mathematical journeys of Paul Erdõs. New York: Simon & Schuster.
25. Shimojo, S., & Ichikawa, S. (1989). Intuitive reasoning about probability: Theoretical and experimental analysis of the "problem of three prisoners". Cognition, 32, 1-24.
26. Sloman, S. A. (1996). The empirical case for two systems of reasoning. Psychological Bulletin, 119, 3-22.
27. Stanovich, K. E. (1999). Who is rational? Studies of individual differences in reasoning. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
28. Stanovich, K. E., & West, R. F. (1998a). Individual differences in framing and conjunction effects. Thinking and Reasoning, 4, 289-317.
29. Stanovich, K. E., & West, R. F. (1998b). Cognitive ability and variation in selection task performance. Thinking and Reasoning, 4, 193-230.
30. Stanovich, K. E., & West, R. F. (2000). Individual differences in reasoning: Implications for the rationality debate. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, 645-726.
31. Sternberg, R. J. (2000). The ability is not general, and neither are the conclusions. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, 697-698.
32. Süss, H., Oberauer, K., Wittmann, W. W, Wilhelm, O., & Schulze, R. (2002). Working-memory capacity explains reasoning ability and a little bit more. Intelligence, 30, 261-288.
33. Tierney, J. (1991, July 21). Behind Monty Hall's doors: Puzzle, debate and answer? New York Times, pp. 1, 20.
34. Toms, M., Morris, N., & Ward, D. (1993). Working memory and conditional reasoning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 46A, 679-699.
35. Tubau, E., & Alonso, D. (2003). Overcoming illusory inferences in a probabilistic counterintuitive problem: The role of explicit representations. Memory & Cognition, 31, 596-607.
36. Tversky, A., & Kahneman, D. (1983). Extensional versus intuitive reasoning: The conjunction fallacy in probability judgment. Psychological Review, 90, 293-315.
37. Verschueren, N., Schaeken, W, & d'Ydewalle, G. (2004). Everyday conditional reasoning with working memory preload. Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah: Erlbaum.
38. vos Savant, M. (1997). The power of logical thinking. New York: St. Martin's Press.
39. Wason, P. C. (1966). Reasoning. In B. M. Foss (Ed.), New Horizons in Psychology: I (pp. 106-137). Harmandsworth, UK: Penguin.