Comparison of the Figural Effect of Syllogistic Reasoning between Two Experimental Paradigms
The figural effect of syllogistic reasoning refers to the effect that the position of the middle term in syllogisms influences the direction of end terms in the conclusion and the difficulty of the syllogism.To understand the difference of the figural effect of syllogistic reasoning tasks between the conclusion production paradigm and the conclusion evaluation paradigm and other factors influencing the difficulty of reasoning,an experiment was conducted on 275 middle school students using 48 syllogisms.The results showed that under both experimental paradigms,the main effect of difficulty differences in the four figures was significant.The difference in difficulty of the conclusion production paradigm is more significant than the conclusion evaluation paradigm.The figural effect cannot fully explain the differences in reasoning difficulty among different syllogisms.The difficulty of reasoning different syllogisms within the same figure and between different figures is influenced by the properties and order of premises,as well as the differences between weak and standard forms.The study provides a new analytical framework to explain the differences in the difficulty of syllogistic reasoning,which helps to promote the resolution of the complexity of syllogistic reasoning.
syllogistic reasoningfigural effectsthe difficulty of reasoningconclusion evaluation paradigmconclusion production para-digm
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