Université de Paris, LaPsyDÉ, CNRS, F-75005, Paris, France.
University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Mem Cognit. 2021 Jul;49(5):873-883. doi: 10.3758/s13421-021-01140-x. Epub 2021 Feb 11.
Influential studies on human thinking with the popular two-response paradigm typically ask participants to continuously alternate between intuitive ("fast") and deliberate ("slow") responding. One concern is that repeated deliberation in these studies will artificially boost the intuitive, "fast" reasoning performance. A recent alternative two-block paradigm therefore advised to present all fast trials in one block before the slow trials were presented. Here, we tested directly whether allowing people to repeatedly deliberate will boost their intuitive reasoning performance by manipulating the order of the fast and slow blocks. In each block, participants solved variants of the bat-and-ball problem. Maximum response time in fast blocks was 4 s and 25 s in the slow blocks. One group solved the fast trials before the slow trials, a second group solved the slow trials first, and a third mixed group alternated between slow and fast trials. Results showed that the order factor did not affect accuracy on the fast trials. This indicates that repeated deliberation does not boost people's intuitive reasoning performance.
具有广泛影响的人类思维研究采用了流行的双反应范式，通常要求参与者在直觉（“快速”）和深思熟虑（“缓慢”）之间持续交替反应。一个关注点是，在这些研究中反复进行深思熟虑会人为地提高直觉的“快速”推理表现。因此，最近的替代双块范式建议在呈现缓慢试验之前，将所有快速试验放在一个块中呈现。在这里，我们通过操纵快速和缓慢块的顺序，直接测试了允许人们反复深思熟虑是否会提高他们的直觉推理表现。在每个块中，参与者解决了球棒问题的变体。快速块的最大响应时间为 4 秒，缓慢块为 25 秒。一组在快速试验之前解决了缓慢试验，第二组首先解决了缓慢试验，第三组在缓慢和快速试验之间交替进行。结果表明，顺序因素不会影响快速试验的准确性。这表明反复深思熟虑不会提高人们的直觉推理表现。
