Lazareva Olga F, Wasserman Edward A
Department of Psychology, Drake University, Des Moines, IA 50311-4505, United States.
Behav Processes. 2010 Jan;83(1):99-112. doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.11.002. Epub 2009 Nov 10.
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.
一种是具有可沿物理维度排序的选择刺激，另一种是具有不可排序的选择刺激。我们教导96名参与者辨别四对重叠的选择刺激：A+B-、B+C-、C+D-和D+E-。一半的参与者被提供了可按大小排序的选择后视觉反馈刺激；另一半则没有被提供可排序的反馈刺激。在后续测试中，我们呈现了新的选择对：BD、AC、AD、AE、BE和CE。我们发现，传递性反应对所有参与者来说都依赖于任务意识。此外，得到有序反馈的参与者比未得到有序反馈的参与者表现出更清晰的任务意识和更强的传递性反应。联想模型（Wynne，1995；Siemann和Delius，1998）未能预测随着意识增强传递性反应的增加。这些结果表明，有序和无序传递性推理任务支持不同的表现模式。
