Abstract
Traditionally, researchers interested in examining the psychological processes involved in solving a three-term series problem have presented the two premises (e.g., Tom is worse than Dick, Dick is worse than Sam ) and the question (“Who is best? or “Who is worst?”) simultaneously. Overall solution time was measured. The present experiments were designed to obtain separate estimates of the time required to encode the premises and the time required to generate an answer from the resulting internal representation. Subjects were given the premises to study prior to being asked the question. Both premise study time and question reaction time were measured. Under these circumstances it appears that marked and unmarked adjectives are stored in the same form and that subjects integrate the two premises into a unified representation rather than simply storing the functional relations underlying each of the two premises.
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