ASTUDYOFREASONING ABILITY AMONG HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS OFJAMMU DISTRICTIN RELA TION TO SEX AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

Reasoning is a highly purposeful, controlled, selective thinking process. Learning usually results from the process of the reasoning. Broadly speaking dull child fails in two ways- first from inability to combine the relations and related data into a systematic whole, secondly from inability to sustain the direct idea that should guide the evolution of his appreciative process. Learning usually results from the process of the reasoning. The reasoning ability develops gradually. In reasoning, we try to explore mentally the reason or cause of an event or happening. The attempts to find the solutions of the questions like “why is it so? How does it happen?” Is nothing but application of our reasoning ability to find the cause and effect relationship. Not only, we are engaged in finding the cause but we are also interested to know the possible effects of actions and stimuli. In thinking what will happen if this or that is done. One is able to make use of one's reasoning ability. In this way reasoning has a unique advantage that it helps us to assure at certain conclusions concerning the problem without actually engaged in any motor exploration. The investigator selected this topic in order to assess whether reasoning ability depends on the academic achievement and sex. Further the variables of sex and academic achievement are dependent of each other, when reasoning ability is taken as the dependent variable is also measured.