Este experimento estudia el efecto de la accesibilidad del escenario, el tipo de instrucciones (verifcación/falsación vs. infracción) y el orden de presentación sobre la ejecución de los sujetos con diferentes versiones de la tarea de selección de Wason. Cada sujeto recibía tres problemas que se correspondían con tres contenidos diferentes de la regla (abstracto, temático-permiso y temático-obligación). Los principales análisis se presentan en términos del índice lógico y de emparejamiento (Pollard y Evans, 1987).
Los índices lógicos y de emparejamiento estaban influídos por el contenido de las reglas. Además existe una interacción entre instrucciones y contenido en el índice lógico. Tanto en la versión abstracta, como en la temática-obligación, los índices lógicos son superiores en los sujetos que reciben instrucciones de infracción, mientras que en la temática-permiso la mejor ejecución se registró con instrucciones de comprobación de la regla. Los resultados no son consistentes con las teorías sintácticas del razonamiento humano, y son discutidos en términos de las teorías pragmáticas y semánticas del razonamiento humano.
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