INFERENTE CAUZALE RETROACTIVE INDUSE IN TIMPUL COMPREHENSIUNII TEXTELOR NARATIVE
ABSTRACT
Individual differences in generating causal backward
inferences during texts comprehension may
reflect differences in reading comprehension. The methods to investigate causal inferences, used in
this research are indirect (the cued
recall and asking-answer protocol), because of the phenomenological
impenetrability on-line inference generation. Exp 1 shows differences between concret operatory stage and
formal operatory stage subjects, in
the efficacy of retrieving consequent pairs of sentences with a variable strengh of the causal relationship. Exp 2
is a longitudinal study which presents three types of causal backward
inferences, generated when antecedent-consequent relationships are congruent
/incongruent with the contextual information.
Our results shows that concret operatory stage subjects have lower performances for generation reactivated inferences
and elaborations, than formal
operator stage subjects.
KEYWORDS: text comprehension, causal inferences, developmental psychology.