ABSTRACT
The present study sought to expand previous research on Wason’s 2-4-6 task by exploring the limits of the multiple goal facilitation effect. In the original task subjects were given an initial triple (set of three numbers), 2-4-6, and told to generate their own sets of triples to aid them in finding the experimenter’s rule, “any ascending sequence.” While the task seems simple, on a first announcement only about 20% of subjects found the correct rule.
