Importancia del conocimiento pragmático en inferencia condicionaluna aproximación experimental

  1. María Dolores Valiña 1
  2. Montserrat Martín 1
  3. Gloria Seoane 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, España
Revista:
Suma Psicológica

ISSN: 0121-4381

Ano de publicación: 2014

Volume: 21

Número: 2

Páxinas: 81-88

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.1016/S0121-4381(14)70010-4 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Resumo

This paper sought to study the influence of pragmatic factors in conditional reasoning. We manipulated: (a) the probability of empirical occurrence of the relation between antecedent and consequent of conditionals (deterministic conditionals, probabilistic conditionals and those without any relation); (b) the pragmatic function of the premises (causal, temporal, promise vs. threat), and (c) the type of conditional rule (Modus Ponens, Modus Tollens, Affirmation of the Consequent and Denial of the Antecedent). The results obtained support the influence of pragmatic knowledge on the four conditional inference rules, and were discussed in terms of the mental models theory and the dual process theory.

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