THE UNCERTAINTY ANSWER TO INVALID SYLLOGISMS IN CHILDREN

• Autor(a) principal: de Lyra, Maria da Conceição D.P.
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Simões, Patrícia Maria Uchôa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Psicologia (Universidade de Brasília. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/17126
• topic: Raciocínio de incerteza; Silogismos inválidos; Justificativa de incerteza; Diálogo com o experimentador; Uncertainty reasoning; Invalid syllogisms; Uncertainty justifications; Dialogue with the experimenter

This study analyses the uncertainty reasoning whichhappens in invalid syllogisms. It is proposed a kind of analysís whichhighlights the process through which the logical necessary uncertainty isreached, integrating the test situation and the dialogue with theexperimenter. 48 children aged seven and nine years old were tested in invalid syllogism problems. This task engaged the children in a previousagreement before an evaluation and justification explanation of thesyllogistic conclusion were required. The seven years old children used tochange their answers during the dialogue with the experimenter, finallyattaining the correct answer. With the nine years old children we found anincrease of the wrong answers, followed by uncertainty justifications. Thisfact can be due to the resistance of the uncertainty answers, evident inthe nines more than in the sevens or, also, to variations due to thedialogue with the experimenter. It is suggested that the process throughwhich the children attain the necessary uncertainty includes a mechanismfor highlighting the linguistic material which composes the syllogism,which include the initial agreement and also the dialogue with theexperimenter.