Critical-reflective thinking training reduces the tendency to commit the fundamental attribution error on in-context measurements during murder case two¶

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q3 i3 Participants who received critical-reflective thinking training gave fewer FAE-biased responses on in-context measurements than no-training participants (η² = 0.16). → Poos 2017

Evidence¶

Poos 2017¶

Poos, J., van den Bosch, K. & Janssen, C.P. (2017). Battling bias: Effects of training and training context. Computers & Education, vol. 111, pp. 101-113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2017.04.004

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In a 2 (Training) x 2 (Context) between-subjects experiment with 80 participants, a two-way ANOVA on in-context FAE scores during murder case two showed a significant main effect of Training (η² = 0.16); trained participants made fewer biased responses ("M ¼ 0.10,SD ¼ 0.1 1") than untrained participants (M = 0.22, SD = 0.16).

"Analysis revealed a signi ficant main effect of Training ( F (1,73) ¼ 14.12, p < 0.01, h2 ¼ 0.16). As Fig. 1 shows, par- ticipants in the Training conditions ( M ¼ 0.10,SD ¼ 0.1 1) gave fewer FAE-biased judgments and decisions than participants in the No-Training conditions (M ¼ 0.22, SD ¼ 0.16)."

Poos 2017 (2)¶

Poos, J., van den Bosch, K. & Janssen, C.P. (2017). Battling bias: Effects of training and training context. Computers & Education, vol. 111, pp. 101-113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2017.04.004

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The same ANOVA on in-context FAE scores found no significant main effect of Context and no Training x Context interaction; equivalence was not tested.

"We found no significant main effect of Context (F (1,73) ¼ 0.80, p ¼ 0.37), nor an interaction effect between Training and Context ( F (1,73) ¼ 0.64, p ¼ 0.43)."

Discussion¶

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• Contrasting examples, correct examples, erroneous examples, and practice problems produced no differences in learning gains or transfer of unbiased-reasoning skills — related