Conditional reasoning with narrative contexts: the role of semantic and pragmatic factors

Autor: Martín Rajo, Montserrat, Valiña García, María Dolores, Seoane Pesqueira, María Gloria, Ferraces Otero, María José
Přispěvatelé: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Psicoloxía Social, Básica e Metodolóxica
Rok vydání: 1997
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Zdroj: Minerva. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
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Popis: This work was presented at Fourth Biennial Conference of the AUSTRALASIAN COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY, celebrated in the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 26-28th September, 1997 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)
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