?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Measuring+relational+complexity+in+oddity+discrimination+tasks&rft.creator=Phillips%2C+S.&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Complexity+Theory&rft.subject=Developmental+Psychology&rft.description=A+relation-based+theory+of+cognition+proposes+that+cognitive+capacity+is+limited%2C+in+part%2C+by+the+maximum+arity+of+a+relation+that+can+be+processed+in+working+memory+(Halford%2C+1993%3B+Halford%2C+Wilson%2C+%26+Phillips%2C+submitted).+Children+below+age+five+are+limited+to+binary+relations%2C+hence+have+great+difficulty+on+transitive+inference+tasks%2C+which+require+integration+of+two+binary+relations+into+a+ternary+relation.+This+theory+attempts+to+integrate+cognitive+and+developmental+data+on+the+basic+of+a+single+metric+-+relational+arity+(number+of+related+arguments).+However%2C+the+lack+of+formal+analysis+into+relational+information+involved+in+cognitive+tasks+threatens+to+undermine+its+utility.+I+propose+using+Natural+language+Information+Analysis+Method+from+relational+database+theory+to+analyze+relational+information+in+cognitive+tasks.+To+demonstrate+the+utility+of+this+method%2C+I+analyze+two+tasks%3A+(1)+simple+oddity%3B+and+(2)+dimension+abstracted+oddity.+The+analysis+identifies+the+peak+arity+of+simple+oddity+as+binary+and+dimension+abstracted+oddity+(like+transitive+inference)+as+ternary.+Therefore%2C+the+relational+theory+predicts+that+dimension+abstracted+oddity+cannot+be+performed+until+the+median+age+of+five+years%2C+while+simple+oddity+can+be+performed+earlier.+The+analysis+also+suggests+variations+on+these+tasks%2C+and+the+peak+arity+for+each+variation+is+examined.&rft.date=1997&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpostscript&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F766%2F2%2Foddity.ps&rft.identifier=++Phillips%2C+S.++(1997)+Measuring+relational+complexity+in+oddity+discrimination+tasks.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F766%2F