Transitive Inferences and Memory in Young Children

By P. Bryant, Tom Trabasso. 1971

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Dynamic Systems Theories (2007, background): “However, when Bryant and Trabasso (1971) drilled preschoolers in the premise information until they learned and remembered that “ the blue rod is longer than the green one,” the preschoolers could make these inferences.”
Darwin's mistake: Explaining the discontinuity between human and nonhuman minds (2008, unknown): “…choices in the lab For many decades now, the classic comparative test of transitive inference has been a nonverbal five-item task developed by Bryant and Trabasso (1971) in which subjects are incrementally trained on pairs of stimuli (i.e., A þ B-, BþC-, CþD-, DþE-) and then tested on…”
Hippocampal activation during transitive inference in humans (2004, background): “Transitive inference, the paradigmatic example of inferential thinking, has been described in humans as young as 4 years old (Bryant and Trabasso, 1971), in nonhuman primates (McGonigle and Chalmers, 1977), in rats (Davis, 1992; Roberts and Phelps, 1994; Dusek and Eichenbaum, 1997), and in pigeons…”
Distant Domain Transfer Learning (2017, unknown): “The motivation behind our solution to solve the DDTL problem is inspired by human’s ‘transitivity’ learning and inference ability (Bryant and Trabasso 1971).”
Stepping off the pendulum: Why only an action-based approach can transcend the nativist–empiricist debate (2013, background): “The general structure of this Anti-Piagetian strategy was to show that some competency developed earlier than Piagetian theory had claimed (Borke, 1975; Braine, 1959; Bryant & Trabasso, 1971; Gelman, 1969).”
Transitive Transfer Learning (2015, background): “However, as human beings, we naturally have the ability to carry out inference and learning via transitivity [7].”
Concept learning in animals. (2008, background): “Bryant and Trabasso (1971) helped to refine the transitive inference procedure by expanding the task to five terms (to avoid end-point effects as in the above example, where A is always better and C is never better).”
When logic fails: Implicit transitive inference in humans (2005, background): “However, Trabasso (1975, 1977) showed that these children do in fact respond transitively if they are trained more extensively on the premise pairs, apparently reflecting the fact that their initial performance decrements stemmed from a lack of memory (Bryant & Trabasso, 1971).”
Transitive inference in rats (Rattus norvegicus). (1992, background): “This view has been challenged by Bryant and Trabasso (1971) and Riley and Trabasso (1974), who have demonstrated that earlier failures with preschool children may have reflected deficits of memory rather than of logic.”
Relational learning with and without awareness: Transitive inference using nonverbal stimuli in humans (2001, background): “TI requires a reorganization of individually learned discriminations in order to make an inferential judgment about a novel discrimination (Bryant & Trabasso, 1971; Piaget, 1928; Siemann & Delius, 1993, 1996).”