Psychological Development and Education ›› 2009, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (4): 50-56.

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Informal Reasoning Differences between Excellent College Debaters and Non-debaters

ZHANG Qi1,2, ZHANG Li2, WANG Yi2, ZHANG Yan-jun2, MA Yan-ping2, SUN Bao-hong2   

  1. 1. Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875;
    2. Department of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029
  • Online:2009-10-15 Published:2009-10-15

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Abstract: This study was designed to investigate informal reasoning differences between college debaters and non-debaters.Two ill-structured problem tests were administered to the participants by argument prompting method.The results showed as follows:(1)most college students achieved refuting reasoning level.The majority of debaters were at the level of indirect refuting reasoning and the majority of non-debaters were at the level of direct refuting reasoning. During my-side and othe-rside reasoning,debaters generated significantly more functional and conditional reasons than non-debaters and there were significant differences in the span of reason field between the debaters and non-debaters; during refuting reasoning,debaters generated significantly more indirect refuting than the non-debaters,so the debaters informal reasoning ability were higher than the non-debaters;(2)The measuring system used in this study can differentiate debaters informal reasoning ability from the non-debaters,so it was an appropriate method to measure students informal reasoning.

Key words: college students, excellent debaters, non-debaters, informal reasonin

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  • B844.3
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