ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION Having introduced our rational analysis of the selection task, we now show that it provides a descriptively adequate account of performance on the abstract, or “indicative” versions of the selection task. In these versions of the task, the task rule putatively describes the way the world is, e.g. ravens are black, birds fly, and so on. Typically these experiments have been conducted with abstract contents, e.g. if there is an A on one side of a card, then there is a 2 on the other side. For each version of the task, our strategy will be to introduce the data and then show how our model accounts for them.
