The Impact Of Time Pressure On Deductive Reasoning Research

Dual-process theories have become increasingly popular in recent years. They all agree that heuristic or System 1 is fast, automatic, unconscious, contextual and requires no effort, and analytic or System 2 is slow, conscious, abstractive, effortful and demands on central working memory resources. These empirical studies of the theory focused on Western countries, our research in this area is relatively little, especially, to verify the dual processing theory from the point of time pressure is even more less. Therefore, this article studies the dual processing theory using the terms of conditional inference and syllogistic reasoning under time pressure. This study has supported the dual processing theory, and the main results are:1,In the experiment of conditional reasoning, the main effect of inference type was significantly, the number of endorsing the HMP is significantly higher than other forms of inference(p<0.05). Under time pressure condition, the number of endorsing the HAC (p<0.05)is significantly higher than under free-time condition, but the number of endorsing the LMP(p<0.001)and LMT(p<0.001)is significant lower; however, the other forms of inference(HMP,HAD,HMP,LDA,LAC)have no significant difference between time pressure condition and free-time pressure condition.2,In the experiment of syllogistic reasoning, the main effect of inference type was significantly, and the order of the number of endorsing the four inference types is VB>IB>VU>IU(LSD,p<0.05),and the number of endorsing VB is significant higher than other forms of inference.Under time pressure condition, the number of endorsing IB(p<0.05)is significant higher than under free-time pressure condition, but the number of endorsing VU(p<0.001)is significant lower; The inference VB and IU has no significant difference between time pressure condition and free-time pressure condition.