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T1 Pragmatic factors in conditional reasoning
A1 Valiña García, María Dolores
A1 Seoane Pesqueira, Gloria
A1 Ferraces Otero, María José
A1 Martín Rajo, Montserrat
K1 Pragmatic factors
K1 Conditional reasoning
K1 Deductive reasoning
K1 Mental models theory
K1 Cognitive psychology
K1 Psychology of thinking
AB We investigated the importance of pragmatic factors in conditional reasoning. The performance of 54 subjects was examined, with the four basic inferences of Modus Ponens (MP), Denial of the Antecedent (DA), Affirmation of the consequent (AC) and Modus Tollens (MT), on the usual three-answer format. The empirical relation in the real world between antecedent and consequent of the premises on conditional arguments (probabilistic, deterministic and without relation) and scenario availability (available versus non-available), were manipulated. The results showed that: a) the scenario availability is not sufficient in itself to explain differences in performance, but affects the subjects' degree of confidence in their conclusions; b) there is an interaction between availability and logical structure of rules on correct performance. The results support the semantic theories of conditional reasoning and are not consistent with theories based on formal rules of inference
SN 3-931660-34-6
YR 1996
FD 1996
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/27153
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/27153
LA eng
NO * This paper was presented at the NINTH CONFERENCE OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY - ESCOP, celebrated at the University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany (September, 4-8, 1996). A posterior version of this work was published in J. Hoffmann & A. Sebald (Eds). Proceedings of the Ninth Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (p.142). Pabst Science Publishers (Lengerich)
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