Psychological Development and Education ›› 2013, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (4): 378-384.

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Consciousness of Causal Inference in Expository Reading

ZOU Yan-rong1,2, CHEN Hui-en2, ZHENG Hai-yan2, ANG Chen2, WANG Rui-ming2   

  1. 1. Center for Education of Psychological Health, Guangzhou Vocational College of Technology & Business, Guangzhou 511442, China;
    2. Center for Studies of Psychological Application, School of psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
  • Online:2013-07-15 Published:2013-07-15

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Abstract: Two experiments were designed to explore the influence of causal inference on the consciousness of text representation in expository with the two paradigms (IRK and PDP). In experiment 1, According to the relationship between the elaboration on a characteristic of the thing and the subsequent target sentence, the independent variable had two levels: successful inference version and fail inference version. The dependent variable was the hit rate of "remember" or "know" judgment. In experiment 2, the independent variable was as same as that in experiment 1. The dependent variable was the hit rate of "Old" judgment and the false alarm rate of "New" judgment. In these two experiments, the reading time of target sentence in fail inference condition was longer than that in successful inference condition. More importantly, there was remarkable difference between the successful inference version and fail inference version in the rate of consciousness and unconsciousness. The results showed that causal inference not only affects the conscious processing but also the unconscious processing in expository.

Key words: expository, causal inference, text representation, consciousness

CLC Number: 

  • G442

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