The role of mental imagery in models of transitive inference
The role of mental imagery in models of transitive inference
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心理意象在传递推理模型中的作用
DOI：
10.1111/j.2044-8295.1987.tb02239.x
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发表时间：
1987
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4
通讯作者：
J. Richardson
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作者：
J. Richardson
心理意象可能与传递性推理有关的观点还没有得到任何实质性的实验证实。相比之下，心理意象的参与在符号或心理比较的研究中得到了更明确的支持。此外，这两个研究领域对心理意象的使用可能促进的认知表征产生了完全不同的解释。本研究考虑是否可以确定的影响，可归因于心理意象的传递性推理使用尽可能类似的任务，参与象征性的比较。传递性维度的具体性和被试的空间能力都不影响被试的作业成绩，而刺激的具体性与被试的作业成绩呈负相关。得出的结论是，心理意象可能没有发挥任何作用，在传递性推理，其参与的象征性的比较是有限的决定，相关信息是在长期或语义记忆。
The idea that mental imagery might be implicated in transitive inference has not received any substantial experimental confirmation. In contrast, the involvement of mental imagery has received clearer support in research on symbolic or mental comparisons. Moreover, the two areas of research have produced quite different accounts of the cognitive representations which the use of mental imagery might promote. This investigation considered whether effects attributable to mental imagery could be identified in transitive inference using a task as similar as possible to that involved in symbolic comparisons. Neither the concreteness of the transitive dimension nor the spatial ability of the subjects had any effect upon performance, while the concreteness of the stimuli was negatively related to performance. It was concluded that mental imagery probably plays no role at all in transitive inference, and that its involvement in symbolic comparisons is limited to decisions in which relevant information is available in long-term or semantic memory.