Psychological Development and Education ›› 2012, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (2): 193-200.

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The Influence of the Relational Complexity upon the Indirect Learning of Relational Category

ZHANG Heng-chao1, YIN Guo-en2   

  1. 1. Department of Psychology in Tianjin University Commerce, Tianjin 300134;
    2. Academy of Psychology and Behavior in Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300074
  • Online:2012-03-15 Published:2012-03-15

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Abstract: 216 undergraduate students participated in the current study.The study designed three kinds of experimental materials.The relational complexity is constantly changing.It arranged the condition of indirect category learning of individual functional prediction and the condition of indirect category learning relation to referential communication.This study explored the influence of the relational complexity upon the indirect learning of relational category.The results showed that:The learning effect of referential communication condition changes with relational complexity during the function prediction under the condition of indirect learning of relational category.The participants under the condition of referential communication scored significantly higher points than individual condition during the indirect learning of 4 features'complex relation.There is no significant difference during the indirect learning of 6 features' complex relation plus second-order same function simple relation.The participants under individual condition scored significantly higher points than the condition of referential communication during the indirect learning of 6 features'complex relation plus second-order different function simple relation.

Key words: relational complexity, relational category, indirect learning, referential communication, referential convention

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