Journal article
Nonverbal transitive inference: Effects of task and awareness on human performance
Behavioural processes, Vol.83(1), pp.99-112
2010
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.11.002
PMID: 19903511
Abstract
We studied human nonverbal transitive inference in two paradigms: with choice stimuli orderable along a physical dimension and with non-orderable choice stimuli. We taught 96 participants to discriminate four overlapping pairs of choice stimuli: A+ B−, B+ C−, C+ D−, and D+ E−. Half of the participants were provided with post-choice visual feedback stimuli which were orderable by size; the other half were not provided with orderable feedback stimuli. In later testing, we presented novel choice pairs: BD, AC, AD, AE, BE, and CE. We found that transitive responding depended on task awareness for all participants. Additionally, participants given ordered feedback showed clearer task awareness and stronger transitive responding than did participants not given ordered feedback. Associative models (
Wynne, 1995; Siemann and Delius, 1998) failed to predict the increase in transitive responding with increasing awareness. These results suggest that ordered and non-ordered transitive inference tasks support different patterns of performance.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Nonverbal transitive inference: Effects of task and awareness on human performance
- Creators
- Olga F Lazareva - Department of Psychology, Drake University, 316 Olin Hall, Des Moines, IA 50311-4505, United StatesEdward A Wasserman - Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52240-1515, United States
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Behavioural processes, Vol.83(1), pp.99-112
- Publisher
- Elsevier B.V
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.11.002
- PMID
- 19903511
- ISSN
- 0376-6357
- eISSN
- 1872-8308
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2010
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984070346202771
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