They can all be seen as attempts to examine the extent to which the reasoning patterns and styles exhibited by people with delusions are continuous with those exhibited by people who have no known pathology of cognition.
Current quantitative assessment instruments (e.g., Baum et al. [2005]) may uncover categories of student errors, such as those described by Gregory ([2008]), but they do not uncover the underlying reasoning patterns.
Analyzing and coding the three open-ended interview questions yielded qualitative data on the percentage of identified themes from each of the three reasoning patterns present in respondents' explanations.
A further difficulty with assessment on ill-defined problems is that, as shown in medicine, in similar situations professionals do not collect the exact same data and do not follow the same reasoning patterns [ 5].
Yet the intuitive reasoning patterns were not necessarily supplanted.
Incremental changes in visitors' reasoning are small steps that may eventually yield a major restructuring in the underlying reasoning patterns.
The pattern of intercorrelations among explanations revealed clusters of highly correlated explanations, which, we argue, correspond to distinct conceptual structures within each of the different reasoning patterns (see Table 8).
This section will be presented in three sections: (1) closed-ended questionnaire data: pre- to post-visit changes, (2) qualitative interview data: post-visit, and (3) relationships between socio-cultural variables and endorsement of the three reasoning patterns.
For the biomedical domain, it is not only crucial to cope with ontological dependencies between wholes and their parts but also with specific reasoning patterns which underlie the propagation of roles across partonomic hierarchies.
Because of the prior research indicating developmental changes in reasoning about evolution (Evans 2000, 2001, 2008), means on the seven different reasoning patterns explanations were compared across three age groups: child, youth and adult.
