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P N Johnson-Laird1, P Legrenzi, V Girotto
1Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. phil@princeton.edu
Science (New York, N.Y.)
|April 25, 2000
Resumen
La gente a menudo juzga mal la consistencia lógica debido a ilusiones predecibles. Esto ocurre porque nos enfocamos en lo que está ocurriendo.
Área de la Ciencia:
- Psicología cognitiva psicología cognitiva.
- La racionalidad humana.
- Complejidad computacional Complejidad computacional.
Sus antecedentes:
- La evaluación de la consistencia de las afirmaciones lógicas, conocida como el problema de satisfiabilidad, es una tarea cognitiva compleja.
- Investigaciones anteriores sugieren que el razonamiento humano puede ser propenso a errores y sesgos sistemáticos.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Investigar las ilusiones predecibles que afectan el juicio humano en las tareas de satisfagabilidad.
- Comprender cómo el número de posibilidades compatibles influye en la dificultad de la tarea y las estrategias de razonamiento.
Principales métodos:
- Se llevaron a cabo dos estudios sobre la tarea computacional de la satisfagabilidad.
- Los participantes evaluaron la consistencia de los conjuntos de afirmaciones.
Principales resultados:
- La dificultad de la tarea aumenta a medida que crece el número de posibilidades compatibles.
- Los razonadores se centran en representar información verdadera, no información falsa, para manejar la carga cognitiva.
- Esta representación selectiva conduce a ilusiones de consistencia e inconsistencia.
Conclusiones:
- El razonamiento humano en tareas de satisfactibilidad es susceptible a ilusiones predecibles.
- La estrategia de representar sólo la información verdadera, aunque eficiente, distorsiona los juicios de coherencia lógica.
- Estos hallazgos requieren una revisión de nuestra comprensión de la racionalidad humana.
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