Efectos de los cambios cognitivos y del esfuerzo de procesamiento sobre los juicios prospectivos y retrospectivos

Abstract

The objective of the present research was to probe in the same design the representative variables of each one of the three major contemporary models that intend to explain the human experience of duration. In addition, it was made a comparison between prospective and retrospective experimental paradigms with the same retention interval, and a direct measurement of the cognitive effort reintroduced in the execution of the experimetal tasks by means of an independent index. The experiment was applied to 192 students of psychology of the Universidad de Salamanca. Results showed that when a subject intentionally attends to the time, changes in the cognitive context operate as the principal indications for making the most precise judgments of time. However, when the attention to time is only incidental, the cognitive effort is the factor that best explains temporal estimation by means of an inverse relation with the size of the reproduction.