Belief inhibition in children's reasoning: memory-based evidence.
J Exp Child Psychol
; 112(2): 231-42, 2012 Jun.
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| ID: mdl-22402412
ABSTRACT
Adult reasoning has been shown as mediated by the inhibition of intuitive beliefs that are in conflict with logic. The current study introduces a classic procedure from the memory field to investigate belief inhibition in 12- to 17-year-old reasoners. A lexical decision task was used to probe the memory accessibility of beliefs that were cued during thinking on syllogistic reasoning problems. Results indicated an impaired memory access for words associated with misleading beliefs that were cued during reasoning if syllogisms had been solved correctly. This finding supports the claim that even for younger reasoners, correct reasoning is mediated by inhibitory processing as soon as intuitive beliefs conflict with logical considerations.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Conflito Psicológico
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Intuição
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Tomada de Decisões
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Desenvolvimento do Adolescente
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Inibição Psicológica
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Lógica
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Adolescent
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Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2012
Tipo de documento:
Article