THE EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE CONDITIONAL STATEMENT : DOES IT HAVE LOGIC?

• Authors: Vaszelka Andras
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In the experimental studies of the abstract conditional statement 4 tasks and 3 types of negatives are used, that is, 12 possible experimental layouts. Only the selection task was properly investigated with all the three negatives. In this study the author runs the missing experiments. Waiting biconditional responses for theoretical reasons, he also investigates the performance of the participants on definitely biconditional problems in selection task. Based on the 8 experiments of which 2 are reported in detail, the participants predominantly interpret the conditional statement as biconditional. The selection task demonstrably hides the biconditional inferences. The interpretation inherently relates to the results of the experiments used to demonstrate the suppression of valid inferences and based on an experiment can be extended towards the interpretation of thematic tasks evoking the P and not-Q response.

Keywords

EN

BICONDITIONAL; CONDITIONAL; CONDITIONAL STATEMENT; LOGIC; PROPOSITIONAL LOGIC; SCHOLASTIC LOGIC; SELECTION TASK

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Hungarian Association for Psychology
• Journal: Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle (Hungarian Psychological Review)
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 62
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 475-488
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Vaszelka Andras

• Andras Vaszelka, no address given, contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10HUAAAA073925