IS INHIBITORY CONTROL RELATED TO CONFLICT IN REASONING: A PRELIMINARY STUDY

• Authors: Hadžiahmetović Nina , Konstantinović Uroš , Purić Danka
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The purpose of this study was to test a belief-bias effect on reasoning in relation to inhibitory control functions and to determine whether inhibition is activated in conflict syllogisms. A total of 85 university students (78% women, Mage = 20.51, SD = 2.90) participated in the study. We measured three types of inhibition – proactive interference resistance (the Brown-Peterson task and the Cued Recall task), distractor interference control (the Eriksen flanker letters and arrows tasks), and prepotent response inhibition (the Spatial and Numerical Stroop tasks). We administered a syllogistic reasoning task containing no-conflict and conflict syllogisms saturated by socially relevant content. We replicated the typical belief-bias effect on reasoning in invalid/believable conflict syllogisms. All three types of inhibition accounted for reasoning performance only on valid/unbelievable conflict syllogisms. Belief-bias was not registered, indicating an inverse relation of bias and inhibition.

Keywords

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INHIBITORY CONTROL; SYLLOGISTIC REASONING; BELIEF-BIAS

• Publisher: Institute of Experimental Psychology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Studia Psychologica
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 63
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 352 - 368

Contributors

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Hadžiahmetović Nina

• Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo, Franje Račkog 1, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7617-3122

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Konstantinović Uroš

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Purić Danka

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/sp.2021.04.832