Effect on reasoning performance of females of different faculties (disciplines)

Pages: 1127-1130
Asha and Anupam Nath Tripathi (Department of Psychology, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh)

Reasoning is one of the important cognitive processes. Reasoning refers to the process of drawing conclusions or inferences from information (Bruner, 1957). Syllogistic reasoning is a type of reasoning. Reasoning is not flawless. In this paper our aim is to investigate how reasoning performance of females participants is affected on account of different faculties (discipline). Results revealed that among three educational discipline the standard formal logical rule was followed by discipline of science participants (90% have made correct response). Only 10% of science participants produced error in their performance while arts and commerce participants produced much erroneous performances (65% both participants committed error) it may be affected by pattern of their educational trainings.