Effect of presentation order on the construction of linear orders
- 1 November 1975
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Memory & Cognition
- Vol. 3 (6) , 614-618
- https://doi.org/10.3758/bf03198226
Abstract
Subjects constructed four-term linear orders from three sentences expressing the relationships between adjacent elements in the order. Successful performance was more likely when the second sentence introduced only one element not mentioned in the first sentence rather than two new elements and when the second and third sentences introduced new elements as grammatical subjects rather than objects. Except for the latter result, previously proposed theories of reasoning processes primarily in three-term series problems, predict other differences that failed to appear. Apparently, in longer series, memory limitations favor conditions in which each sentence after the first presents a relationship between a new and an old element in linguistic forms that identify the new element.Keywords
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