I haven’t read Stanovichs’ papers you refer to, but in his book “Rationality and the reflective mind” he proposes a seperation of Type 2 processing into 1) serial associative cognition with a focal bias and 2) fully decoupled simulations for alternative hypothesis. (Just noting it because I found it useful for my own thinking.)
In fact, an exhaustive simulation of alternative worlds would guarantee correct responding in the [Wason selection] task. Instead [...] subjects accept the rule as given, assume it is true, and simply describe how they would go about verifying it. They reason from a single focal model— systematically generating associations from this focal model but never constructing another model of the situation. This is what I would term serial associative cognition with a focal bias. It is how I would begin to operationalize the satisficing bias in Type 2 processing posited in several papers by Evans (2006b; Evans, Over, & Handley, 2003). ”
I haven’t read Stanovichs’ papers you refer to, but in his book “Rationality and the reflective mind” he proposes a seperation of Type 2 processing into 1) serial associative cognition with a focal bias and 2) fully decoupled simulations for alternative hypothesis. (Just noting it because I found it useful for my own thinking.)