When applying to graduate schools you are told that it is harder to get into a clinical psychology program compared to an experimental psychology program and it is harder to get into an experimental psychology program than a social work program. You deduce that it is harder to get into a clinical psychology program compared to a social work program through ____________.
A) transitive inference
B) implicit memory
C) declarative inference
D) procedural memory

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Transitive inference is the ability to deduce the relationship between two items that have not been explicitly compared before. In this scenario, the student has compared the difficulty of getting into clinical psychology, experimental psychology, and social work programs and deduced that clinical psychology is harder to get into than social work. This is an example of transitive inference. Implicit memory refers to the ability to remember information without conscious effort, declarative inference is not a recognized term, and procedural memory involves the ability to remember how to perform specific tasks.

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