Subha Ramanathan, Catherine O'Brien, Guy Faulkner, Michelle Stone
Happiness in motion: emotions, well-being, and active school travel
The Journal of school health
transitive inference deduce b b c c help us understand areas sociocognitive development across three experiments learning memory validity two transitive paradigms investigated experiment 1 n 121 7yearolds completed threeterm nontraining task fiveterm task requiring extensivetraining performance superior threeterm task experiment 2 presented 510yearolds new fiveterm task increasing learning opportunities without lengthening training n 71 inferences improved suggesting children learn fiveterm series rapidly regarding memory minor cd premise best predictor bdinferential performance tasktypes however tasks exhibited different profiles according associations major bc premise bd inference correlations premises role age experiment 3 n 227 helped rule possible objection findings simply stemmed threeterm tasks real objects easier solve computertasks also confirmed unlike fiveterm task experiments 1 2 inferences threeterm tasks improve age whether age range wide experiment 3 narrow experiment 2 conclude tasks indexed different routes within dualprocess conception transitive reasoning fiveterm tasks indexes type 1 associative processing threeterm task indexes type 2 analytic processing well demonstrating tasks perfectly valid findings open opportunities use transitive tasks educability investigate role transitivity domains reasoning potentially benefit lived experiences persons developmental issues