Belief inhibition in children's reasoning: Memory-based evidence

被引：8
作者：
Steegen, Sara [1 ]
De Neys, Wim [2 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Louvain, Fac Psychol & Educ Sci, B-3000 Louvain, Belgium
[2] Paris Descartes Univ, CNRS, F-75005 Paris, France
来源：
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY | 2012年 / 112卷 / 02期
关键词：
Reasoning; Inhibition; Children; Cognitive development; Conflict monitoring; Decision-making; INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES; DECISION-MAKING; WORKING-MEMORY; SYSTEMS; BIAS; ASSOCIATIONS; RETRIEVAL; ACCOUNTS; TRENDS; BRAIN;
D O I：
10.1016/j.jecp.2012.01.006
中图分类号：
B844 [发展心理学（人类心理学）];
学科分类号：
040202 ;
摘要：
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. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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页码：231 / 242
页数：12
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