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Sternberg, Robert J. – Intelligence, 1986
The goal of this unified theory of human reasoning is to specify what constitutes reasoning and to characterize the psychological distinction between inductive and deductive reasoning. The theory views reasoning as the controlled and mediated application of three processes (encoding, comparison and selective combination) to inferential rules. (JAZ)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Deduction, Encoding (Psychology)