传递性关系推理的简约模型——诠释传递性关系推理的新理论

The Minimal Model of Transitive Inference: The New Theory of Transitive Inference

Wynne的简约模型是基于动物的传递性关系推理研究所提出的理论模型。该模型假设:个体的传递性关系推理是通过运用刺激的强化值来表征顺序信息,并比较所呈现刺激之间强化值的差异来实现的。研究文献证实简约模型能够说明在人类和其它动物的传递性关系推理研究中所发现的大多数标准化效应,因此其被视为迄今解释传递性关系推理问题最经济的模型。但该模型将人类高级认知活动采用动物的机械学习方式来解释的还原论倾向是值得商榷的,它所探讨的传递性行为是否是“真传递性关系推理”也有待进一步验证。

Wynne抯 minimal model is a theoretical model based on the study of transitive inference in animals. He posits that individual can do transitive inference by representing sequence information with the reinforcement value of stimuli, and comparing the differences among the presented stimuli抯 reinforcement values. The authors consider the model as the most parsimonious model to account for transitive inference problems, because research literatures demonstrate that the minimal model can account for the most of standard effects coming from transitive inference researches in humans and other animals. However, the model抯 tendency of reductionism, interpreting higher cognitive activities in humans with mechanical learning ways in animals, deserves being discussed. And whether the transitive behavior the model discussed is the 搕rue transitive inference?needs to be validated.