RT Conference_Proceedings
T1 Conditional reasoning with narrative contexts: the role of semantic and pragmatic factors
A1 Martín Rajo, Montserrat
A1 Valiña García, María Dolores
A1 Seoane Pesqueira, Gloria
A1 Ferraces Otero, María José
K1 Psychology
K1 Cognitive psychology
K1 Thinking
K1 Psychology of thinking
K1 Reasoning
K1 Psychology of reasoning
K1 Conditional reasoning
K1 Pragmatic reasoning
K1 Mental models
K1 Narrative texts
AB The main objective of this experiment is to determine in what way the subjects´s knowledge of the real world modulates their performance in a conditional reasoning task with narrative contexts, in line with previous experimental studies (Cheng & Holyoak, 1985 and Holyoak & Cheng, 1995)  The empirical frequency (Valiña, Seoane, Gehring, Ferraces & Fernández-Rey, 1992; Valiña, Seoane, Martín, Fernández-Rey & Ferraces, 1992; Valiña, Seoane, Ferraces & Martín, 1996a, b) was manipulated. This refers to the frequency with which empirical relation expressed between the antecedent and the consequent of the premises on conditional arguments occurs in the real world. This relation could occur always (deterministic), sometimes (probabilistic) or there could be no specific relation between antecedent and consequent (without specific relation). In this respect, we consider the deterministic relation similar to a relation of empirical necessity (the relation expressed in the conditional statement always happens); while the probabilistic relation presents a character of empirical possibility (which  only happens sometimes in the real world).
YR 1997
FD 1997
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/13605
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/13605
LA eng
NO This work was presented at Fourth Biennial Conference of the AUSTRALASIAN COGNITIVESCIENCE SOCIETY, celebrated in the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 26-28th September, 1997
DS Minerva
RD 30 abr 2026