Relative informativeness of quantifiers used in syllogistic reasoning
Oaksford, Mike and Roberts, L. and Chater, N. (2002) Relative informativeness of quantifiers used in syllogistic reasoning. Memory & Cognition 30 (1), pp. 138-149. ISSN 0090-502X.
Abstract
Three experiments tested a possible resolution of the probability heuristics model (PHM) of syllogistic reasoning proposed by Chater and Oaksford (1999), with their experimental results apparently showing that the generalized quantifierfew was not as informative as suggested theoretically. Modifying the interpretation offew to take into account the distinction between positive and negative quantifiers (Moxey & Sanford, 1993) indicated two orderings over the quantifiersall, most, few, some, none, andsome … not that are more consistent with the results. Experiments 1–3 tested these orderings empirically by having participants rank whether a quantifier applied to a particular probabilistic state of affairs. Experiments 1 and 2 showed that participants agreed on when a quantifier applied and that the empirically derived informativeness orderings were consistent with the proposed modifications of the order. Experiment 3 showed that this finding was robust even when response competition was eliminated.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| School: | School of Science > Psychological Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Sep 2016 11:15 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Oct 2020 07:27 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/16115 |
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